The instability of value

Decision Making, Affect, and Learning: Attention and Performance XXIII

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chater, Nick ^a   Vlaev, Ivo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice theory; Decision making; Local comparative theory; Risk; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921689808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199600434.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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