Playing for peanuts: Why is risk seeking more common for low-stakes gambles?

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-46

  Weber, Bethany J ^a   Chapman, Gretchen B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disappointment; Magnitude effect; Outcome magnitude; Peanuts effect; Preference reversals; Probability; Regret; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144426748     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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