We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table … with an individual preference for a choice under risk, based on privately received information, and can share this … information with fellow group members. They then make a decision under risk on behalf of the group using a random dictatorship …

We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …

environments modify students’ risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth …

severe harvest losses leads to more risk aversion and stronger overweighting of small probabilities. Higher losses are not …

probabilities, in an experiment and found supporting evidence …

We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …

This study test whether social reference points impact individual risk taking. In a laboratory experiment, decision … across two treatments. We find a significant treatment effect on risk taking: decision makers vary their risk taking in order … of private reference points on risk taking. …