Behavioural decision theory for multi-criteria decision analysis: A guided tour

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-275

  Morton, A ^a   Fasolo, B ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural decision theory; Decision analysis; Decision biases; Experiments; Multi criteria decision analysis; Problem structuring; Psychology

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS;

DECISION BIAS; DECISION MAKERS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; PSYCHOLOGY; VALUE ELICITATIONS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 58449089191     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602550     Document Type: Article

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