Replicated alternatives and the role of confusion, chasing, and regret in decisions from experience

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-322

  Ert, Eyal ^a   Erev, Ido ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decisions from experience; Fictitious play; Independence of irrelevant alternatives; Momentum trading; Reinforcement learning; The reversed certainty effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547142121     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.556     Document Type: Article

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