Making the seemingly impossible appear possible: Effects of conjunction fallacies in evaluations of bets on football games

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-180

  Nilsson, Håkan ^a,b   Andersson, Patric ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Betting; Conjunction fallacy; Context effects; Football; Probability judgment; Punters

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949488940     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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