Biased probability judgment: Evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 903-915

  Dohmen, Thomas ^a   Falk, Armin ^b   Huffman, David ^c   Marklein, Felix ^d   Sunde, Uwe ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Financial decision making; Gambler's fallacy; Hot hand fallacy; Long term unemployment; Probability judgment; Representative design

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449084713     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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