'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!': Effects of Streaks on Confidence and Betting in a Binary Choice Task

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 239-249

  Studer, Bettina ^a,b   Limbrick Oldfield, Eve H ^a   Clark, Luke ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision confidence; Loss chasing; Post decision wagering; Sequential biases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931825537     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1844     Document Type: Article

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