Stability of choices among uncertain alternatives.

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• Publication year

  1956

• Venue

  American Journal of Psychology

• Publication date

  1956-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/1419083PMID 13403000
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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