Regret and the rationality of choices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1538, 2010, Pages 249-257

  Bourgeois Gironde, Sacha ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Addiction; Decision weight; Paradoxes of rationality; Predictive error signal; Regret

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; DECISION MAKING; RATIONALIZATION;

EID: 75749124662     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0163     Document Type: Article

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