The additive property of the inconsistency degree in intertemporal decision making through the generalization of psychophysical laws

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1763-1772

  Destefano, Natlia ^a,b   Martinez, Alexandre Souto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute of Science and Technology in Complex Systems   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Decision making; Discount function; Econophysics; Impulsivity; Neuroeconomics; Rationality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ECONOPHYSICSS; IMPULSIVITY; INTER-TEMPORAL CHOICES; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; NEUROECONOMICS; NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL MECHANICS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL LAWS; RATIONALITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79952619386     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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