An overall probability of winning heuristic for complex risky decisions: Choice and eye fixation evidence

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 73-87

  Venkatraman, Vinod ^a   Payne, John W ^b   Huettel, Scott A ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision making; Eye tracking; Heuristics; Process measures; Risky choice; Risky choice models; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909584079     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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