reported event-splitting effects (also called violations of coalescing) and shown that they can explain violations of expected …

lotteries, and coalescing. In other words, at least one of these axioms should be violated in order to generate a common ratio … coalescing is systematically violated. This result provides support for theories which explain the common ratio effect by … violations of coalescing (i.e., configural weight theory) instead of violations of compound independence (i.e., rank …

functionals from round to round. Instead, we focus on choice problems allowing for direct tests of independence and coalescing. We … show that variability of responses as well as violations of independence and coalescing decrease from earlier to later …

coalescing, the assumption that when two branches lead to the same consequence, they can be combined by adding their …