Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions

1986/01/01 by Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman · 3,618 citations
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Economics #Framing (construction) #Framing effect #Game Theory and Voting Systems #History #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1086/296365

published in The Journal of Business 59(S4), S251 (University of Chicago Press)

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