Designing a Homo Psychologicus more psychologicus: Empirical results on value perception in support to a new theoretical organizational-economic agent based model

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 290, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-78

  Ceschi, Andrea ^a   Rubaltelli, Enrico ^b   Sartori, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Homo Economicus; Loss aversion; Optimism; Prospect theory; Value function

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; HOMO ECONOMICUS; LOSS AVERSION; OPTIMISM; PROSPECT THEORY; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84906054371     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07593-8_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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