Description-experience Gaps: Assessments in Other Choice Paradigms

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-314

  Fantino, Edmund ^a   Navarro, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base rate neglect; Decision making; Description experience gap; Prisoner's dilemma; Probability learning; Sunk cost effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861198659     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.737     Document Type: Article

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