Testing models of belief bias: an experiment

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.001zbMath1419.91211OpenAlexW3123968898WikidataQ61912525 ScholiaQ61912525MaRDI QIDQ1735770

Alexander Coutts

Publication date: 29 March 2019

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67507/1/MPRA_paper_67507.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

beliefsanticipationoptimismoverconfidenceaffective expected utilitypessimism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

Uses Software

• Z-Tree

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