What Is Behind the Priority Heuristic? A Mathematical Analysis and Comment on Brandstätter, Gigerenzer, and Hertwig (2006)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 274-280

  Rieger, Marc Oliver ^a   Wang, Mei ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

decisions under risk; heuristics; lotteries; prospect theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

GAMBLING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 39049152924     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.274     Document Type: Article

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