-Preface -- I. Behavioral Decision Theory and the Idea of It -- Chapter 1. Decision-making Phenomenon and Behavioral Decision Theory -- Chapter 2. Preference and Preference Structure -- II. Preference Reversal Phenomenon and Description of the Phenomenon -- Chapter 3. Ordinal Utility and...

This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a...

Two experiments with undergraduates as subjects were carried out with the aim of replicating and extending previous results showing that the implication of the behavioral life-cycle hypothesis (H. M. Shefrin & R. H. Thaler, 1988) that people classify assets in different mental accounts (current...

Firm leaders' inclination to adapt their business model is sensitive to how risk is framed (as an external threat or an opportunity) in the macro-economic environment. We apply threat-rigidity theory to examine the relationship between risk framing and business model adaptation. We also...