Risky decision making: Active risk defusing;Entscheiden unter Risiko: Aktive Risiko-Entschärfung

Psychologische Rundschau

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 127-134

  Huber, Oswald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision process; Information search; Probability; Risk; Risk defusing; Risky decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242802155     PISSN: 00333042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/0033-3042.55.3.127     Document Type: Article

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