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Disentangling the order effect from the context effect: Analogies, homologies, and quantum probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2013

Elias L. Khalil*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. [email protected]://eliaskhalil.com

Abstract

Although the quantum probability (QP) can be useful to model the context effect, it is not relevant to the order effect, conjunction fallacy, and other related biases. Although the issue of potentiality, which is the intuition behind QP, is involved in the context effect, it is not involved in the other biases.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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