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(Chichilnisky, 1996, 2000, 2002). Results provide evidence that fear influences the cognitive process of decision-making by leading …
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Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and...
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Until recently we have known little about how core decision processes change with age and how aging may impact the … reward-related decision-making contexts. A range of decision-related processes are covered, from adult age differences in … basic sensitivity to gains and losses to areas of decision making that require increasing integration of information, and …
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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true … preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for a clear-cut interpretation on the decision level, we find that roughly …
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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true … preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for a clear-cut interpretation on the decision level, we find that roughly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556632
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time … to cope with time pressure varies significantly across decision makers, leading to selected subgroups that differ in … jointly predict individuals' decision quality and ability to keep their decision strategy under time pressure. …
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Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time … to cope with time pressure varies significantly across decision makers, leading to selected subgroups that differ in … jointly predict individuals' decision quality and ability to keep their decision strategy under time pressure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899690
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...
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risk. Furthermore, we determine whether subjects are averse to collective risk - the variability in the sum of payoffs of … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … risk changes choice only marginally and not significantly, though in the direction of collective risk reduction. We …
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Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty …
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