The tree of experience in the forest of information: Overweighing experienced relative to observed information

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 263-286

  Simonsohn, Uri ^a   Karlsson, Niklas ^b   Loewenstein, George ^c   Ariely, Dan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Experiential learning; Observational learning; Prisoner dilemma; Repeated games; Weak link

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849014583     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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