We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …

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 …

endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …

' time and risk preferences. We find no influence on anchoring. However, even if biases are lower for people with higher …

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 …

in social image concerns and attitudes towards lying. We then test its predictions in a laboratory experiment. Subjects …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …