Streak biases in decision making: Data and a memory model

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1 SPEC.ISS., 2005, Pages 5-16

  Altmann, Erik M ^a   Burns, Bruce D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT R; Cognitive simulation; Decision making; Gambler's fallacy; Hot hand; Memory; Streaks

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

MEMORY MODELS; QUADRATIC TRENDS; STOCK MARKET; STREAK BIASES;

DECISION MAKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 8844234132     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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