Do ambiguity avoidance and the comparative ignorance hypothesis depend on people's affective reactions?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-254

  Rubaltelli, Enrico ^a   Rumiati, Rino ^a   Slovic, Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Ambiguity; Evaluation context; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953025166     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-010-9091-z     Document Type: Article

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