On the perception and operationalization of risk perception

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-324

  Ganzach, Yoav ^a   Ellis, Shmuel ^a   Pazy, Asya ^a   Ricci Siag, Tali ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavioral decision making; Behavioral economics; Heuristics and biases; Judgment; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350144914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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