The disjunction effect reexamined: Relevant methodological issues and the fallacy of unspecified percentage comparisons

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 268-276

  Lambdin, Charles ^a   Burdsal, Charles ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Disjunction effect; Sure thing principle; Two step gambles; Unspecified percentage comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249066202     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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