People may be uncertain about future preferences, leading to both a preference for flexibility in choice between menus and stochastic choice from menus. This paper describes an experimental test of preference uncertainty in a realeffort task. We observe subjects' preferences over menus of work...

Two of the most well known regularities observed in preferences under risk and uncertainty are ambiguity aversion and the Allais paradox. We study the behav- ior of an agent who can display both tendencies simultaneously. We introduce a novel notion of preference for hedging that applies to both...

When choice options are complex, policy makers may seek to reduce decision making errors by making a high quality option the default. We show that this positive effect is at risk because such a policy creates incentives for decision makers to "drop out" by paying no attention to the decision and...

1 Introduction to Cognitive Economics -- 2 Cognitive Household Finance -- 3 Measuring and Minimizing Mistakes -- 4 Cognitive Economics at Work -- 5 Cognitive Capital and Human-AI Interactions -- 6 Work Skills for the Cognitive Economy -- 7 Cognitive Economics in Teaching -- 8. Cognitive...