STUDIES IN INDIVIDUAL CHOICE BEHAVIOR

Abstract

The dissertation comprises a number of essays linked by a common theme. The common theme is that all the sections of the dissertation deal with one aspect or another of the theory of individual choice behavior. Section Two focuses on choices involving time; Section Three focuses on how information affects choices involving uncertainty. The final section, Section Four, reports on some empirical studies relating to the theoretical developments. Disciplines ranging as broadly as statistics, psychology, philosophy, and economics are concerned in one way or another with aspects of the theory of individual choice behavior.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0700158

Entities

People

  • Dean T. Jamison

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Concept Formation
  • Differential Equations
  • Economics
  • Equations
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Mathematics
  • Numbers
  • Operations Research
  • Personality
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Psychology
  • Random Variables
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Theoretical Analysis.