An experimental investigation of violations of transitivity in choice under uncertainty

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-91

  Birnbaum, Michael H ^a   Schmidt, Ulrich ^b,c  

^a CSUF H 830M ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Errors; Regret theory; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649129366     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-008-9043-z     Document Type: Article

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