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Measuring Belief and Risk Attitude [PDF]
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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Predation risk reduces a female preference for heterospecific males in the green swordtail [PDF]
The presence of a predator can result in the alteration, loss or reversal of a mating preference. Under predation risk, females often change their initial preference for conspicuous males, favouring less flashy males to reduce the risk of being detected ...
Alonzo, Suzanne H. +2 more
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Ilaria Cutica,1,* Silvia Riva,2,* Ester Maria Orlandi,3 Alessandra Iurlo,4 Claudia Vener,1 Chiara Elena,3 Cristina Bucelli,4 Daniele Cattaneo,1,4 Elisa Tomezzoli,5 Gabriella Pravettoni1,5 1Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of
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Risk preferences and development revisited [PDF]
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Martinsson, Peter +3 more
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Alcohol demand and risk preference [PDF]
Both economists and psychologists have studied the concept of risk preference. Economists categorize individuals as more or less risk-tolerant based on the marginal utility of income. Psychologists categorize individuals' propensity towards risk based on harm avoidance, novelty seeking and reward dependence traits. The two concepts of risk are related,
Dhaval, Dave, Henry, Saffer
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Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Soil Quality Protection and Improvement
Understanding and estimating the economic value that society places on agricultural soil quality protection and improvement can guide the development of policies aimed at mitigating pollution, promoting conservation, or incentivizing sustainable land ...
Francisco José Areal
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Cognitive ability and risk aversion: A systematic review and meta analysis
Are highly intelligent people less risk averse? Over the last two decades scholars have argued the existence of a negative relationship between cognitive ability and risk aversion.
Lau Lilleholt
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Neural Correlates of Anticipation Risk Reflect Risk Preferences [PDF]
Individual risk preferences have a large influence on decisions, such as financial investments, career and health choices, or gambling. Decision making under risk has been studied both behaviorally and on a neural level. It remains unclear, however, how risk attitudes are encoded and integrated with choice. Here, we investigate how risk preferences are
Rudorf, Sarah +2 more
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Emotional reactions to losing explain gender differences in entering a risky lottery
A gender difference in risk preferences, with women being more averse to risky choices, is a robust experimental finding. Speculating on the sources of this difference, Croson and Gneezy recently pointed to the tendency for women to experience emotions ...
Kimmo Eriksson, Brent Simpson
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Reply [PDF]
Can the well-known experimental phenomenon of present-bias in intertemporal choice be confounded with the risks associated with receiving payment? Can measurements of risk preferences be used to represent desires for smoothness in intertemporal payments? In our two 2012 papers in this journal we explored these two questions and found the answer to the
Andreoni, James, Sprenger, Charles
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