Risk, complexity, and deviations from expected-value maximization: Results of a lottery choice experiment *

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 699-715

  Huck, Steffen ^a   Weizsäcker, Georg ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decisions; Experiments; Heuristics; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474433     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(99)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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