Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about … measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People with higher levels of imprecision update their beliefs more in …

A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self …-control, compared to regular self-control; in particular, lower levels of self-control should induce stronger risk aversion for stakes …-established self-control depletion task and measuring risk attitudes via finely graduated choice lists. While independent manipulation …

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …

individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …

of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a baseline before the pandemic, we find that …