Information asymmetry in decision from description versus decision from experience

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-325

  Hadar, Liat ^a,c   Fox, Craig R ^b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER HERZLIYA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision from experience; Experience description gap; Information asymmetry; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350150248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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