A shocking experiment: New evidence on probability weighting and common ratio violations

We study whether probability weighting is observed when individuals are presented with a series of choices between lotteries consisting of real non-monetary adverse outcomes, electric shocks. Our estimation of the parameters of the probability weighting function proposed by Tversky and Kahneman (199...

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Main Authors: Gregory S. Berns, C. Monica Capra, Sara Moore, Charles Noussair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2007-08-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500000565/type/journal_article