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Ability, chance, and ambiguity aversion: Revisiting the competence hypothesis

Klein, William M. P.; Cerully, Jennifer L.; Monin, … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 3, pp. 192-199

Individuals are often ambiguity-averse when choosing among purely chance-based prospects (Ellsberg, 1961). However … tests of the competence hypothesis, ambiguity is confounded with personal controllability and the source of the ambiguity (e … effects of both ambiguity aversion and competence. In Experiment 1, participants preferred an unambiguous chance-based option …

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Ambiguity aversion in a delay analogue of the Ellsberg Paradox

Weber, Bethany J.; Tan, Wah Pheow - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 4, pp. 383-389

Decision makers are often ambiguity averse, preferring options with subjectively known probabilities to options with … unknown probabilities. The Ellsberg paradox is the best-known example of this phenomenon. Ambiguity has generally been studied … in the domain of risky choice, and many theories of ambiguity aversion deal with ambiguity only in this context. However …

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Strategy selection during exploratory behavior: sex differences

Brandner, Catherine - In: Judgment and Decision Making 2 (2007) October, pp. 326-332

This study was designed to assess sex-related differences in the selection of an appropriate strategy when facing novelty. %This %basic behavior has been assumed to support more elaborate behaviors %like spatial abilities. A simple visuo-spatial task was used to investigate exploratory behavior...

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On the complexity of traffic judges' decisions

Leiser, David; Schatzberg, Dov-Ron - In: Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008) 8, pp. 667-678

Professional judges in traffic courts sentence many hundreds of offenders per year. Using 639 case files from archives, we compared the Matching Heuristic (MH) to compensatory, weighing algorithms (WM). We modeled and cross validated the models on different subsets of the data, and took several...

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In the winning mood: Affect in the Iowa gambling task

Vries, Marieke de; Holland, Rob W.; Witteman, Cilia L. M. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008) January, pp. 42-50

The present research aimed to test the role of mood in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara et al., 1994). In the IGT, participants can win or lose money by picking cards from four different decks. They have to learn by experience that two decks are overall advantageous and two decks are overall...

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Who makes utilitarian judgments? The influences of emotions on utilitarian judgments

Choe, So Young; Min, Kyung-Hwan - In: Judgment and Decision Making 6 (2011) 7, pp. 580-592

Recent research has emphasized emotion's role in non-utilitarian judgments, but has not focused much on characteristics of subjects contributing to those judgments. The present article relates utilitarian judgment to individual disposition to experience various emotions. Study 1 first...

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How comparing decision outcomes affects subsequent decisions: The carry-over of a comparative mind-set

Raeva, Daniela; Dijk, Eric van; Zeelenberg, Marcel - In: Judgment and Decision Making 6 (2011) 4, pp. 343-350

In the current paper we investigate how feedback over decision outcomes may affect future decisions. In an experimental study we demonstrate that if people receive feedback over the outcomes they obtained (``factual outcomes'') and the outcomes they would have obtained had they decided...

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To give or not to give: Parental experience and adherence to the Food and Drug Administration warning about over-the-counter cough and cold medicine usage

Miron-Shatz, Talya; Barron, Greg; Hanoch, Yaniv; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 6, pp. 428-436

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned against administering over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to children under 2. This study evaluated whether experienced parents show poorer adherence to the FDA warning, as safe experiences are predicted to reduce the impact of warnings, and...

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Moral emotions as determinants of third-party punishment: Anger, guilt, and the functions of altruistic sanctions

Nelissen, Rob M. A.; Zeelenberg, Marcel - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 7, pp. 543-553

Third-party punishment has recently received attention as an explanation for human altruism. Feelings of anger in response to norm violations are assumed to motivate third-party sanctions, yet there is only sparse and indirect support for this idea. We investigated the impact of both anger and...

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Methodological pitfalls of the Unconscious Thought paradigm

Waroquier, Laurent; Marchiori, David; Klein, Olivier; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 7, pp. 601-610

According to Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT: Dijksterhuis \& Nordgren, 2006), complex decisions are best made after a period of distraction assumed to elicit ``unconscious thought''. Over three studies, respectively offering a conceptual, an identical and a methodologically improved replication...

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