Concepts and bounded rationality: An Application of Niestegg's approach to conditional quantum probabilities

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1101, Issue , 2009, Pages 302-310

  Blutner, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian view; Bounded rationality; Cue validity; Interference effects in cognition; Orthoalgebra; Prototype theory.

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549096707     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3109954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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