prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …