An effect of inter-trial duration on the gambler's fallacy choice bias

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 455-459

  Militana, Erika ^a   Wolfson, Elissa ^a   Cleaveland, J Mark ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Gambler's fallacy; Heuristics; Hot hand fallacy; Inter trial interval

Indexed keywords

GAMBLING; HEURISTICS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL BELIEF; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951978354     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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