Balancing risk and reward to develop an optimal hot-hand game

Game Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Williams, Paul ^a   Nesbitt, Keith V ^a   Eidels, Ami ^a   Elliott, David ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Game design; Hot hand; Psychology; Reward; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951918620     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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