Directional verbal probabilities: Inconsistencies between preferential judgments and numerical meanings

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 161-170

  Honda, Hidehito ^a   Yamagishi, Kimihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Directionality; Verbal probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33747816519     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.3.161     Document Type: Article

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