The same but different: An empirical investigation of the reducibility principle

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 187-206

  Budescu, David V ^a   Fischer, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chance mechanisms; Compound gambles; Expected utility; Multi stage gambles; Reducibility principle; Violations of rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044527355     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.372     Document Type: Article

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