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dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …
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Decision makers often take risky decisions on the behalf of others rather than for themselves. Competing theoretical …
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This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context social referent and decision maker will always …
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We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...
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Risk attitude and perception is reflected in brain reactions during RPID experiments. Given the fMRI data, an important research question is how to detect risk related regions and to investigate the relation between risk preferences and brain activity. Conventional methods are often insensitive...
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Decision making can be a complex process requiring the integration of several attributes of choice options … functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from an investment decision (ID) study for ID-related effects. We propose a new … technique for identifying activated brain regions: Cluster, Estimation, Activation and Decision (CEAD) method. Our analysis is …
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Prior research suggests that those who rely on intuition rather than effortful reasoning when making decisions are less averse to risk and ambiguity. The evidence is largely correlational, however, leaving open the question of the direction of causality. In this paper, we present experimental...
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity …
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