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actual competence to measure knowledge of politics. This paper found evidence of both preference for ambiguity in the gain … and knowledge in individual decision making under ambiguity. Reactions to a natural source of uncertainty (i …. This paper also shows that a superior knowledge of politics was associated with a preference for ambiguity (i.e., the …
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subjects’ “internal” ambiguity aversion increases in performance in the high-competence task and that “external” ambiguity … confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … multistage experiment where subjects face different sources of ambiguity and where we are able to control for self …
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subjects' 'internal' ambiguity aversion increases in performance in the high-competence task and that 'external' ambiguity … confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … multistage experiment where subjects face different sources of ambiguity and where we are able to control for self …
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Competence has been recently proposed as an explanation for the degree of ambiguity aversion. Using general knowledge … that the sum of certainty equivalents for both bets depends on the judged knowledge of the class of events. We also … elicited the decision weights for events and complementary events. We found a similar effect of knowledge on the sum of …
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There is a large theoretical literature in both economics and psychology on decision making under ambiguity (as … design, in which we create genuine ambiguity in the laboratory and can control the amount of ambiguity, we generate data … how the fit changes when we vary the ambiguity. We find that the Choquet formulation performs best overall, though it is …
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Several factors affect attitudes toward ambiguity. What happens, however, when people are asked to exchange an …
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In this paper we examine the performance of theories of decision making under uncertainty/ambiguity from the … end, we employ an innovative experimental design which enables us to reproduce ambiguity in the laboratory in a …
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity … relative ambiguity attitude (compared to the peer's) significantly matters for shifts in individual attitudes, and that … dynamics considerably differ between gain and loss domains. For gains, learning to be comparably ambiguity averse increases the …
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to information differences (sampling bias), to a feature of preferences (ambiguity sensitivity) or to aspects of …
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We propose a class of multiple-prior representations of preferences under ambiguity where the belief the decision … Optimism. The model does not restrict the sign of the DM's ambiguity attitude, and we show that it provides a unified framework … through which to characterize different degrees of ambiguity aversion, as well as to represent context-dependent negative and …
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