On the relative importance of the hot stove effect and the tendency to rely on small samples

Experiments have suggested that decisions from extit{experience} differ from decisions from extit{description}. In experience-based decisions, the decision makers often fail to maximise their payoffs. Previous authors have ascribed the effect of underweighting of rare outcomes to this deviation from...

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Main Author: Takemi Fujikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2009-08-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/9521/jdm9521.pdf