Circadian photoreception influences loss aversion [PDF]
Scientific ReportsGambling behaviour is a persistent and growing societal problem. An unexplored factor that may encourage gambling behaviour is the impact of circadian photoreception on cognitive processes underlying the behaviour.
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Age Influences Loss Aversion Through Effects on Posterior Cingulate Cortical Thickness [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Decision-making strategies shift during normal aging and can profoundly affect wellbeing. Although overweighing losses compared to gains, termed “loss aversion,” plays an important role in choice selection, the age trajectory of this effect and how it ...
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Risk and Loss Aversion and Attitude to COVID and Vaccines in Anxious Individuals [PDF]
Computational PsychiatryAnxious individuals are known to show impaired decision-making in economic gambling task and in everyday life decisions. This impairment can be due to aversion to uncertainty about outcomes (risk aversion) and/or aversion to negative outcomes (loss ...
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How risk perception and loss aversion affect farmers' willingness to withdraw from rural homesteads: Mediating role of policy identity [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Government-guided withdrawal from rural homesteads is a sustainable solution to the problem of vacant rural residential land. Nonetheless, few studies have considered the influence of risk perception and loss aversion on farmers' decisions to withdraw ...
Rui He, Yuhang Dai, Guiyan Sun
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Loss aversion and market crashes. [PDF]
Econ Model, 2020 This study proposes a rational expectation equilibrium model of stock market crashes with information asymmetry and loss averse speculators. We obtain a state-dependent linear optimal trading strategy, which makes the equilibrium price tractable. The model predicts nonlinear market depth and the result that small shocks to fundamentals (e.g., supply or
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Diffusion connectometry reveals white matter substrates of individual differences in loss aversion [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhile neural responses in striatal, limbic and somatosensory regions are known to track individual differences in loss aversion, a system-level view of its neural basis is still lacking, and, in particular, a possible association with white matter (WM ...
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Loss Aversion and Risk Aversion in Non-Clinical Negative Symptoms and Hypomania [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 In the field of behavioral decision-making, “loss aversion” is a behavioral phenomenon in which individuals show a higher sensitivity to potential losses than to gains.
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Decomposing loss aversion from a single neural signal [PDF]
iScienceSummary: People often display stronger aversion to losses than appetite for equivalent gains, a widespread phenomenon known as loss aversion. The prevailing theory attributes loss aversion to a valuation bias that amplifies losses relative to gains.
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Loss aversion (simply) does not materialize for smaller losses [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 Loss aversion, the argument that losses are given more weight than gains, has been recently shown to be absent in small losses. However, a series of studies by Mrkva et al.
Dana Zeif, Eldad Yechiam
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Measurement-induced focusing and the magnitude of loss aversion: The difference between comparing gains to losses and losses to gains [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 Research has identified loss aversion as a strong and robust phenomenon, but has also revealed some moderators affecting the magnitude of its effect on decision making.
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