Justifiability is a name for a variety of well-documented behavioral phenomena that violate rational choices. For instance, preferences and choices frequently depend on payoff-irrelevant factors, and not only on the collection of alternatives. Motivated by these findings we present a generalized...

Quite often, decision makers face choices that involve new aspects and alternatives never considered before. Scenarios of this sort may arise, for instance, as a result of technological progress or from individual circumstances such as growing awareness. In such situations, simple inference...

We characterize preferences over acts that can be represented by a utility function and a multiple-prior, such that an act f is preferred to act g if there is a prior under which the expected utility induced by f is higher than that induced by g. These preferences are referred to as justifiable...