"Take-the-best" and other simple strategies: Why and when they work "well" with binary cues

Theory and Decision

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-249

  Hogarth, Robin M ^a   Karelaia, Natalia ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Decision making; Equal weighting; Lexicographic rules; Take the best

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ERROR DETECTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; EQUAL WEIGHTING; LEXICOGRAPHIC RULES; TAKE THE BEST (TTB);

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 33749422026     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-006-9000-8     Document Type: Article

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