Verbal Probabilities: A Question of Frame?

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-72

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a   Brun, Wibecke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Framing; Probability judgments; Quantifiers; Verbal probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037244048     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.432     Document Type: Article

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