Subjective probability weighting and the discovered preference hypothesis

Theory and Decision

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Van De Kuilen, Gijs ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Learning; Nonexpected utility; Probability weighting; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF SENSITIVITY; EXPECTED UTILITY MODEL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING; NONEXPECTED UTILITY; PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; PROSPECT THEORY; RATIONAL CHOICE; RISK AVERSION; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY;

LINEARIZATION; RISK PERCEPTION; SECURITY OF DATA;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 67650669963     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-007-9080-0     Document Type: Article

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