Can Conspiracy Beliefs Be Beneficial? Longitudinal Linkages Between Conspiracy Beliefs, Anxiety, Uncertainty Aversion, and Existential Threat. [PDF]
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, 2023 Research suggests that conspiracy beliefs are adopted because they promise to reduce anxiety, uncertainty, and threat. However, little research has investigated whether conspiracy beliefs actually fulfill these promises.
Liekefett L, Christ O, Becker JC.
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Strategic Technology Switching under Risk Aversion and Uncertainty [PDF]
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2017 Sequential investment opportunities or the presence of a rival typically hasten investment under risk neutrality. By contrast, greater price uncertainty or risk aversion increase the incentive to postpone investment in the absence of competition.
Lars H. Sendstad, Michail Chronopoulos
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Physician uncertainty aversion impacts medical decision making for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia: results of a national survey. [PDF]
Haematologica, 2018 Elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia can be treated with intensive chemotherapy, low-intensity therapy such as low-dose aracytine or hypomethylating agents, or best supportive care.
Bories P +9 more
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Risks, 2020 In this paper, we examine the impact of investors’ attention to COVID-19 on stock market returns and the moderating effect of national culture on this relationship.
Shear F, Ashraf BN, Sadaqat M.
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Background uncertainty does not increase risk aversion in decision making [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSome theories in economics and psychology propose that background uncertainty, which is uncertainty that is independent of a person’s actual decision, can alter people’s risk-taking behavior with respect to that decision.
Johannes Leder +4 more
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The macroeconomic effects of uncertainty and risk aversion shocks
Social Science Research Network, 2023 This paper identifies two types of volatility shocks, namely quantity and price of risk shocks, which can intuitively be interpreted as uncertainty and risk aversion shocks, respectively.
Brendan Berthold
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Handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis in dental medicine: a systematic review with a focus on affordability and risk-aversion [PDF]
Cost Effectiveness and Resource AllocationBackground The number of published cost-effectiveness analyses in dental medicine has substantially increased in recent years. A key methodological issue in these analyses is how to address uncertainty in costs and effects, which also impacts uncertainty
Pedram Sendi +2 more
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Ambiguity and Conflict Aversion When Uncertainty Is in the Outcomes
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 We argue that the way ambiguity has been operationalized throughout the literature on ambiguity effects has an important limitation, insofar as ambiguity in outcomes has been neglected.
Michael Smithson +3 more
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Aversion amplification in the emerging
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 2020 Health psychology shows that responses to risk and threat depend on perceptions as much as objective factors The present study focuses on the precursors of perceived threat of COVID-19 We draw on political and social psychology and use the aversion ...
Fanny Lalot +2 more
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Comparing descriptive and theoretical models of decision-making under uncertainty and their relation to socioeconomic factors. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study examines the selection and validation of measurement models for decision-making under uncertainty, with particular emphasis on the integration of socioeconomic contexts in these models. We critically compared four distinct models, differing in
Brendan Lam +3 more
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