Pleasure in decision-making situations: Politics and gambling

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 619-645

  Bonniot Cabanac, Marie Claude ^a   Cabanac, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Framing; Gambling; Microeconomics; Money; Motivation; Optimization; Pleasure; Politics

Indexed keywords

FRAMING; GAMBLING; MICROECONOMICS; MONEY; PLEASURE; POLITICS;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70449569407     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669870802579798     Document Type: Article

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