The gambler's fallacy and the hot hand: Empirical data from casinos

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-209

  Croson, Rachel ^a   Sundali, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field study; Perceptions of randomness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644465238     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-005-1153-2     Document Type: Article

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