Risk-specific search for risk-defusing operators

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-40

  Wilke, Martina ^a,b   Haug, Heike ^a,b   Funke, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b University of Heidelberg ^*

Author keywords

Catastrophe; Content effects; Decision making; Risk; Risk defusing behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749099946     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.67.1.29     Document Type: Article

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