We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology … additional reluctance to participate in a mixed domain lottery beyond that predicted by risk aversion. We show that only …

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 …

attitudes towards ambiguity and compound risk which suggests that compound risk aversion may provide a psychological foundation … for ambiguity aversion. However, compound risk aversion and ambiguity aversion may also be independent psychological …’s ability to reduce compound to simple risks, and analyzing how this affects their compound risk and ambiguity attitudes in …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

measurement in influencing economic decisions. They attempt to measure uncertainty by indexes of volatility of the stock market … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

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 …

. -- framing ; choice under risk ; time preference ; experiment …

We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on … behavior resulting in participants requiring higher compensation to bear risk. …

decisionmaker who does not have constant-absolute-risk-averse preferences and who evaluates her decisions one by one, there exists a …