Ambiguity attitudes

ST Trautmann, G Van De Kuilen - The Wiley Blackwell …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the experimental literature on ambiguity attitudes, focusing on three
topics. First, it considers various approaches to operationalize ambiguity in experiments …

[HTML][HTML] Knowing how much you don't know: a neural organization of uncertainty estimates

DR Bach, RJ Dolan - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
How we estimate uncertainty is important in decision neuroscience and has wide-ranging
implications in basic and clinical neuroscience, from computational models of optimality to …

Impatience and uncertainty: Experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

M Sutter, MG Kocher, D Glätzle-Rützler… - American Economic …, 2013 - aeaweb.org
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and
adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate …

[HTML][HTML] Responsibility effects in decision making under risk

J Pahlke, S Strasser, FM Vieider - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2015 - Springer
We explore situations in which a decision maker bears responsibility for somebody else's
outcomes as well as for her own. We study such choices for gains and losses, and for …

[HTML][HTML] Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians

PC Trimmer, AI Houston, JAR Marshall, MT Mendl… - Animal cognition, 2011 - Springer
Animals (including humans) often face circumstances in which the best choice of action is
not certain. Environmental cues may be ambiguous, and choices may be risky. This paper …

[PDF][PDF] Curiosity, information gaps, and the utility of knowledge

R Golman, G Loewenstein - Information Gaps, and the Utility of …, 2015 - Citeseer
We propose an integrated theoretical framework that captures the diverse motives driving
the preference to obtain or avoid information. Beyond the conventional desire for information …

[HTML][HTML] Ambiguity and the value of information

A Snow - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010 - Springer
The value of information is studied in a non-expected utility model of ambiguity with second-
order probabilities. Information that reduces ambiguity has a positive value for ambiguity …

The known unknowns: neural representation of second-order uncertainty, and ambiguity

DR Bach, O Hulme, WD Penny… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Predictions provided by action-outcome probabilities entail a degree of (first-order)
uncertainty. However, these probabilities themselves can be imprecise and embody second …

Ambiguity aversion and the preference for established brands

AV Muthukrishnan, L Wathieu… - Management Science, 2009 - pubsonline.informs.org
We propose that ambiguity aversion, as introduced in the literature on decision making
under uncertainty, drives a preference for established brands in multiattribute choices …

The decision to recall: A behavioral investigation in the medical device industry

GP Ball, R Shah, K Donohue - Journal of Operations Management, 2018 - Elsevier
The decision to recall a product can significantly affect an operations manager's career, the
credibility and financial performance of the firm, and the safety of customers. Despite the …