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- Title
A further exploration of the uncertainty effect.
- Authors
Wang, Yitong; Feng, Tianjun; Keller, L.
- Abstract
Individual valuation of a binary lottery at values less than the lottery's worst outcome has been designated as the 'uncertainty effect'. Our paper aims to explore the boundary conditions of the uncertainty effect by investigating a plausible underlying process and proposing two possible methods. First, we examine how providing an exogenous evaluation opportunity prior to judging the value of the lottery affects individuals' judgments, and find that first valuing the worst outcome and then the lottery eliminates the uncertainty effect. Second, we explore whether introducing additional cognitive load dampens how far decision makers correct their initial evaluations, and find that additional cognitive load is able to eliminate the uncertainty effect.
- Subjects
LOTTERIES; GAMBLING; BOUNDARY value problems; VALUATION; RISK-taking behavior
- Publication
Journal of Risk & Uncertainty, 2013, Vol 47, Issue 3, p291
- ISSN
0895-5646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11166-013-9180-x