Delquié, Philippe; Cillo, Alessandra - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33 (2006) 3, pp. 197-215
The central idea of Disappointment theory is that an individual forms an expectation about a risky alternative, and may … experience disappointment if the outcome eventually obtained falls short of the expectation. We abandon the hypothesis of a well …-defined prior expectation: disappointment feelings may arise from comparing the outcome received with anyof the gamble’s outcomes …