A quantum probability explanation for violations of 'rational' decision theory

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2171-2178

  Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Busemeyer, Jerome R ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive science; Decision making; Prisoner's dilemma; Quantum probability

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 66749186802     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0121     Document Type: Article

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