Bayesian explanations have swept through cognitive science over the past two decades,
from intuitive physics and causal learning, to perception, motor control and language. Yet …

Essay son Actions and Events (Davidson 200 la, henceforth EAE) brings together seminal
papers by Donald Davidson, one of the most influential philosophers in the analytic tradition …

An indispensable survey of new developments and results in experimental economics When
The Handbook of Experimental Economics first came out in 1995, the notion of economists …

A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of
rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the …

This paper presents a critique of expected utility theory as a descriptive model of decision
making under risk, and develops an alternative model, called prospect theory. Choices …

The material is organized into four main chapters, a summary and conclusions chapter, and
four appendixes. The first chapter presents the general theory; it is a prerequisite for the …

Le Comportement de l'Homme Rationnel devant le Risque: Critique des Postulats et
Axiomes de l'Ecole Americaine Page 1 VOLUME 21 OCTOBER, 1953 NUMBER 4 LE …

R ecent years have seen important new explorations along the boundaries between
economics and psychology. For the economist, the immediate question about these …

A person deciding on a career, a wife, or a place to live bases his choice on two factors:(1)
How much do I like each of the available alternatives? and (2) What are the chances for a …

This literature review of decision making (how people make choices among desirable
alternatives), culled from the disciplines of psychology, economics, and mathematics, covers …