Quantum cognition and bounded rationality

Synthese

Volumn 193, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3239-3291

  Blutner, Reinhard ^a   beim Graben, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allais paradox; Bounded rationality; Complementarity; Ellsberg paradox; Quantum probabilities; Symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944909130     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0928-5     Document Type: Article

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