• DOI:10.1016/0010-0285(92)90015-T
Corpus ID: 29570235

Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice

@article{Shafir1992ThinkingTU,
  title={Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice},
  author={E. Shafir and A. Tversky},
  journal={Cognitive Psychology},
  year={1992},
  volume={24},
  pages={449-474}
}

E. Shafir, A. Tversky

Published 1992

Psychology, Medicine

Cognitive Psychology

When thinking under uncertainty, people often do not consider appropriately each of the relevant branches of a decision tree, as required by consequentialism. As a result they sometimes violate Savage's sure-thing principle. In the Prisoner's Dilemma game, for example, many subjects compete when they know that the opponent has competed and when they know that the opponent has cooperated, but cooperate when they do not know the opponent's response. Newcomb's Problem and Wason's selection task… CONTINUE READING

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