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Contextual Effects and the Influence of the Frame on Decision Making

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Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality

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For the purposes of the present paper it would be helpful — though with the risk of some degree of over-simplification — to group the various theoretical studies which underlie research on decision-making under two broad and relatively distinct headings, as reflected in the title of the conference which brings us together today.

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Cadet, B. (1994). Contextual Effects and the Influence of the Frame on Decision Making. In: Munier, B., Machina, M.J. (eds) Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2298-8_2

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