Dimension integration: Testing models without trade-offs

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-133

  Birnbaum, Michael H ^a   LaCroix, Adam R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Lexicographic semi order; Priority heuristic; Risk; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349079436     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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