Observing others' behavior and risk taking in decisions from experience

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 493-500

  Yechiam, Eldad ^a   Druyan, Meir ^a   Ert, Eyal ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Foregone payoff; Risky shift; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350166567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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