Win some, lose some: The effect of chronic losses on decision making under risk

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1085-1099

  Rivers, Louie ^a,b   Arvai, Joseph ^c,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Chronic loss; Decision making; Learned helplessness; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CHRONIC LOSERS; CONTEXTUAL DOMAIN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36649034841     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669870701615172     Document Type: Article

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