| PRENTICE-HALL SERIES IN MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY Clyde H. Coombs, Editor | | An Elementary Introduction PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEYClyde H. Coombs The University of Michigan Robyn M. Dawes University of Oregon and Oregon Research Institute Amos Tversky The Hebrew University of JerusalemOe Gen MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY ‘Coombs, Dawes and Tversky © 1970 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Clifis, New Jersey All rights reserved. No part of this book ‘may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Current printing (last digit): 1098765432 13-562157-7 Library of Congress catalog card number: 773-101580 Printed in the United States of America Prentice-Hall International, Inc., London Prentice-Hall of Australia, Pty. Ltd., Sydney Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd., Toronto Prentice-Hall of India Private Ltd., New Delhi Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc., Tokyo