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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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Student performance and loss aversion* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022 AbstractWe match data on performance in a multiple‐choice examination with data on risk preferences from a classroom experiment. Students who are more loss averse leave more questions unanswered and perform worse in the exam when an incorrect answer is penalized compared with no answer. Thus, loss aversion parameters extracted from lottery choices in a
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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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The Effect of Investors' Myopic Loss Aversions (MLA) on Iinvestments in Stocks in Tehran Stock Exchange [PDF]
مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی, 2020 Given the importance of the growth and development of the capital market in a country, knowing the factors that affect people's equity investment can help Capital market development and growth.
Mohammad Hasan Ebrahimi Sarv Olia +2 more
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Amygdala–prefrontal connectivity modulates loss aversion bias in anxious individuals
NeuroImage, 2020 Anxious individuals tend to make pessimistic judgments in decision making under uncertainty. While this phenomenon is commonly attributed to risk aversion, loss aversion is a critical but often overlooked factor. In this study, we simultaneously examined
Pengfei Xu +9 more
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ON LOSS AVERSION IN CAPUCHIN MONKEYS [PDF]
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008 Chen, Lakshminarayanan, and Santos (2006) claim to show in three choice experiments that monkeys react rationally to price and wealth shocks, but, when faced with gambles, display hallmark, human‐like biases that include loss aversion. We present three experiments with monkeys and humans consistent with a reinterpretation of their data that attributes ...
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Retos, 2023 Studies on stress and decision-making usually address acute and artificial stressors. However, COVID-19 outbreak set the perfect scenario to address how decision-making, and specifically loss aversion, could be affected by a real and persistent stressor,
Francisco Molins, Miguel Angel Serrano
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Are individual differences in loss aversion related to ADHD symptomatology?
Discover Psychology, 2023 Loss aversion, or the greater sensitivity to losses than equivalent gains, has been shown to vary across individuals, but has yet to be thoroughly examined in relation to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptomatology.
Tara E. McKee, Kerry Reilly
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Loss aversion is traditionally defined in the context of lotteries over monetary payoffs. This paper extends the notion of loss aversion to a more general setup where outcomes (consequences) may not be measurable in monetary terms and people may have fuzzy preferences over lotteries, i.e. they may choose in a probabilistic manner.
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