The Concept of Probability in Psychological Experiments

1. BACKGROUND The last twenty-five years have seen a large amount of psychological research in the area of behavioral decision theory. It followed the major breakthrough of decision theory that came with von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944. The key concep...

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Other Authors: Staël von Holstein, C.-A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1974, 1974
Edition:1st ed. 1974
Series:Theory and Decision Library
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Value of Studying Subjective Evaluations of Probability
  • The True Subjective Probability Problem
  • Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness
  • The Psychological Concept of Subjective Probability: A Measurement-Theoretic View
  • Are Subjective Probabilities Probabilities?
  • On the Generalizability of Experimental Results
  • Statistical Analysis: Theory Versus Practice
  • A Selected Bibliography
  • Author Index