We show that a "suspicious" subjective expected utility (SEU) maximizer, i.e., one who treats potential consequences of states as information useful in assessing the probability of those states, may under reasonable circumstances act as though he were maximizing either weighted linear utility,...

In a recent article, LaValle and Wapman argue that the recursion analysis of decision trees in extensive form requires the Herstein-Milnor independence axiom. I claim that most extensive form analyses are perfectly proper in the absence of independence, but that the transformation from extensive...