A foundation for support theory based on a non-Boolean event space

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 399-407

  Narens, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intuitionism; Intuitionistic logic; Judgmental heuristics; Probability judgment; Subjective probability; Support theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350560516     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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