Dynamic decision-making under simulated realistic risk situations

Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 884-890

  Xie, Xiaofei ^a   Xie, Jiaqiu ^a   Ren, Jing ^a   Yu, Songlin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic decision making; Goal setting; Multiple reference points

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350437318     PISSN: 04798023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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