Information search in decisions from experience: Do our patterns of sampling foreshadow our decisions?

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1787-1792

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

decisions from experience; exploitation; exploration; underweighting rare events

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAME; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; REWARD;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; REWARD;

EID: 78650341484     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610387443     Document Type: Article

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