The effect of adding a constant to all payoffs: Experimental investigation, and implications for reinforcement learning models

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-128

  Erev, Ido ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^b   Roth, Alvin E ^c,d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Probability matching; Reference point; Reinforcement; Stimulus response

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130546     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2681(99)00028-1     Document Type: Article

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