Empirical comparison of Markov and quantum models of decision making

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-433

  Busemeyer, Jerome R ^a   Wang, Zheng ^b   Lambert Mogiliansky, Ariane ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Decision making; Double stochasticity; Interference effects; Markov processes; Quantum probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350300963     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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