An eye-tracking study on information processing in risky decisions: Evidence for compensatory strategies based on automatic processes

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-98

  Glöckner, Andreas ^a   Herbold, Ann Katrin ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cumulative prospect theory; Decision field theory; Eye tracking; Intuition; Parallel constraint satisfaction; Priority heuristic; Risky decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650543612     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.684     Document Type: Article

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