Decisions by coin toss: Inappropriate but fair

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-101

  Keren, Gideon ^a   Teigen, Karl H ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coin toss; Decision aversion; Equipoise; Randomizers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951943131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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