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Optimal Policies, Degradation, and Cognition

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Decision Making and Change in Human Affairs

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Psychologists working in the field of multistage decision making feel that an important subclass of complex decision problems can be modelled within the conceptual framework of dynamic programming. The basic assumption underlying that belief is that these problems can be analysed on a stagewise decomposed level and that a similar kind of processing also is natural for human decision makers.

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Kleiter, G.D. (1977). Optimal Policies, Degradation, and Cognition. In: Jungermann, H., De Zeeuw, G. (eds) Decision Making and Change in Human Affairs. Theory and Decision Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1276-8_29

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