Behavioral spillovers and cognitive load in multiple games: An experimental study

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-31

  Bednar, Jenna ^a,b   Chen, Yan ^a   Liu, Tracy Xiao ^a   Page, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral spillover; Cognitive load; Entropy; Experiment; Multiple games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855189463     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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