Prospect Theory Analysis of Guessing in Multiple Choice Tests

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 313-327

  Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a   Meyer, Joachim ^a   Flascher, Oded M ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Framing effect; Multiple choice tests; Scoring rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036396147     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.417     Document Type: Article

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