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ERIC Number: EJ1301957
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-May
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Experiencing Risk: Higher-Order Risk Attitudes in Description- and Experience-Based Decisions
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v47 n5 p727-746 May 2021
Risky decisions are often characterized by (a) imprecision about consequences and their likelihoods that can be reduced by information collection, and by (b) unavoidable background risk. This article addresses both aspects by eliciting risk attitude, prudence, and temperance in decisions from description and decisions from experience. The results reveal a novel description-experience gap for prudence and replicate the known gap for risky decisions. While widespread prudence has been observed in decisions from description, we find no evidence of prudent decision making from experience. In decisions from experience people are strongly influenced by the sampled mean, while skewness plays a smaller role than in decisions from description.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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