other hand, have not been successful in incorporating both individual rationality and inter-individual heterogeneity … preferences and try to maximize expected utility but heterogeneous in the sense that they have different preferences over possible …

years, scholars have turned to alternative representations of utility in an attempt to capture motivational heterogeneity …Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action … across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and …

risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …

accounting for heterogeneity. Results indicate that, compared to alternative formats, binary answer formats lead to equal …

preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …