A new version of the Monty Hall Dilemma with unequal probabilities

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 25-34

  Granberg, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Human learning; Monty Hall Dilemma; Probability judgments; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0032742293     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00066-2     Document Type: Article

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