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Decision by sampling

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Neil Stewart *
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Nick Chater
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Gordon D. A. Brown
DOI:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2005.10.003delete
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We present a theory of decision by sampling (DbS) in which, in contrast with traditional models, there are no underlying psychoeconomic scales. Instead, we assume that an attribute's subjective value is constructed from a series of binary, ordinal comparisons to a sample of attribute values drawn from memory and is its rank within the sample. We assume that the sample reflects both the immediate distribution of attribute values from the current decision's context and also the background, real-world distribution of attribute values. DbS accounts for concave utility functions; losses looming larger than gains; hyperbolic temporal discounting; and the overestimation of small probabilities and the underestimation of large probabilities. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
judgment
decision making
sampling
memory
utility
gains and losses
temporal discounting
subjective probability
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