Impacts on decision making of executives: Probabilities versus outcomes

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-65

  Jeske, Klaus Jürgen ^a   Werner, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANAGEMENT STYLE; MANAGEMENT THEORY; MANAGER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 73149119964     PISSN: 1937321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0091586     Document Type: Article

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