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Objective Physiological Measurements but Not Subjective Reports Moderate the Effect of Hunger on Choice Behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Hunger is a powerful driver of human behavior, and is therefore of great interest to the study of psychology, economics, and consumer behavior. Assessing hunger levels in experiments is often biased, when using self-report methods, or complex, when using
Maytal Shabat-Simon, Maytal Shabat-Simon, Anastasia Shuster, Anastasia Shuster, Tal Sela, Dino J. Levy, Dino J. Levy   +6 more
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Agricultural arbitrage and risk preferences [PDF]

Journal of Econometrics, 2011
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Pope, Rulon D., LaFrance, Jeffrey T, Just, Richard E.   +2 more
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Choice Under Risk: How Occupation Influences Preferences

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
In the last decade, a number of studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly in psychology and economics, have explored the complexity of individual risk behavior and its underlying factors.
Tetiana Hill, Petko Kusev, Paul van Schaik   +2 more
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Learning Your Own Risk Preferences

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
AbstractDo people know their own risk preferences, or do risk choices change with experience and observation? We provide a straightforward test in the laboratory. People make an initial decision concerning a lottery choice and then experience 24 unpaid practice periods in which they roll the dice, record the outcome, and record the would-be payoff ...
Gary Charness, Nir Chemaya, Dario Trujano-Ochoa   +2 more
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Twin picks: Disentangling the determinants of risk-taking in household portfolios [PDF]

, 2013
This paper investigates risk-taking in the liquid portfolios held by a large panel of Swedish twins. We document that the portfolio share invested in risky assets is an increasing and concave function of financial wealth, leading to different risk ...
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The relationship between life satisfaction and risk preferences of couch potatoes, recreational and elite athletes: the impact of mental dispositions and attitudes

Frontiers in Behavioral Economics
IntroductionThis study examines the relationship between physical activity and mental wellbeing among students not playing any sport (“couch potatoes”), recreational athletes and “dual career students”, i.e., students who are at the same time elite ...
Alice Aguiar-Noury, Bernd Frick, Nikolaus Risch   +2 more
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Citrus Specialization or Crop Diversification: The Role of Smallholder’s Subjective Risk Aversion and Case Evidence from Guangxi, China

Horticulturae, 2023
Specialization may lead to higher income for small-scale farmers but comes with increased risks, while diversification can mitigate risks and foster agricultural sustainability.
Xinjian Chen, Mengyao Xia, Di Zeng, Xiaojun Fan   +3 more
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Measuring Belief and Risk Attitude [PDF]

, 2019
Ramsey (1926) sketches a proposal for measuring the subjective probabilities of an agent by their observable preferences, assuming that the agent is an expected utility maximizer.
Neth, Sven
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Heterogeneous risk and time preferences [PDF]

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016
Assessing individuals’ time and risk preferences is crucial in domains such as health-related decisions (e.g., dieting, addictions), environmentally-friendly practices, and saving opportunities. We propose a new method to jointly elicit and estimate risk attitudes and intertemporal choices.
Ferecatu, Alina, Onculer, A
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Why Can't We Accurately Predict Others' Decisions? Prediction Discrepancy in Risky Decision-Making

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Individuals often fail to accurately predict others' decisions in a risky environment. In this paper, we investigate the characteristics and causes of this prediction discrepancy.
Qingzhou Sun, Huanren Zhang, Jing Zhang, Xiaoning Zhang   +3 more
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