The decision paradoxes motivating Prospect Theory: The prevalence of the paradoxes increases with numerical ability

Prospect Theory (PT: Kahneman and Tversky, 1979) of risky decision making is based on psychological phenomena (paradoxes) that motivate assumptions about how people react to gains and losses, and how they weight outcomes with probabilities. Recent studies suggest that people’s numeracy affect their...

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Main Authors: Philip Millroth, Håkan Nilsson, Peter Juslin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2019-07-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18515/jdm18515.pdf