Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 52, issue 3, 2016

Is social choice gender-neutral? Reference dependence and sexual selection in decisions toward risk and inequality pp. 191-211

Steven Beckman, Gregory DeAngelo, W. James Smith and Ning Wang

A measurement of decreasing impatience for health and money pp. 213-231

Han Bleichrodt, Yu Gao and Kirsten I. M. Rohde

On the functional form of temporal discounting: An optimized adaptive test pp. 233-254

Daniel R. Cavagnaro, Gabriel J. Aranovich, Samuel M. McClure, Mark A. Pitt and Jay I. Myung

Did the Great Recession keep bad drivers off the road? pp. 255-280

Vikram Maheshri and Clifford Winston

Volume 52, issue 2, 2016

Group decision rules and group rationality under risk pp. 99-116

Aurelien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt, Ning Liu and Peter Wakker

Strategic self-ignorance pp. 117-136

Linda Thunstrom, Jonas Nordström, Jason Shogren, Mariah Tanner Ehmke and Klaas van 't Veld

Dread and latency impacts on a VSL for cancer risk reductions pp. 137-161

Rebecca McDonald, Susan M. Chilton, Michael W. Jones-Lee and Hugh R. T. Metcalf

Reducing risks in wartime through capital-labor substitution: Evidence from World War II pp. 163-190

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan and Thomas Kniesner

Volume 52, issue 1, 2016

How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? pp. 21-46

Zahra Murad, Martin Sefton and Chris Starmer

Ellsberg paradox: Ambiguity and complexity aversions compared pp. 47-64

Jaromír Kovářík, Dan Levin and Tao Wang

Volume 51, issue 3, 2015

Loving the long shot: Risk taking with skewed lotteries pp. 195-217

Philip Grossman and Catherine Eckel

Estimating ambiguity preferences and perceptions in multiple prior models: Evidence from the field pp. 219-244

Stephen Dimmock, Roy Kouwenberg, Olivia Mitchell and Kim Peijnenburg

No aspiration to win? An experimental test of the aspiration level model pp. 245-266

Enrico Diecidue, Moshe Levy and Jeroen Ven

Representativeness and managing catastrophe risk pp. 267-290

Jacqueline Volkman-Wise

Volume 51, issue 2, 2015

Managing social risks – tradeoffs between risks and inequalities pp. 103-124

Ingrid Rohde and Kirsten M. Rohde

Responsibility effects in decision making under risk pp. 125-146

Julius Pahlke, Sebastian Strasser and Ferdinand Vieider

Heterogeneity in preferences towards complexity pp. 147-170

Peter Moffatt, Stefania Sitzia and Daniel Zizzo

Demand for fixed-price multi-year contracts: Experimental evidence from insurance decisions pp. 171-194

Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Volume 51, issue 1, 2015

Valuing gains in life expectancy: Clarifying some ambiguities pp. 1-21

Michael Jones-Lee, Susan Chilton, Hugh Metcalf and Jytte Nielsen

Saving lives with stem cell transplants pp. 23-51

Damien Sheehan-Connor, Ted Bergstrom and Rodney Garratt

The value of a statistical life for transportation regulations: A test of the benefits transfer methodology pp. 53-77

W Viscusi and Elissa Gentry

Preferences for life-expectancy gains: Sooner or later? pp. 79-101

James Hammitt and Tuba Tunçel

Volume 50, issue 3, 2015

Probabilistic sophistication and reverse Bayesianism pp. 189-208

Edi Karni and Marie-Louise Vierø

A neuroimaging study of preference for strategic uncertainty pp. 209-227

Robin Chark and Soo Chew

Risk taking and risk sharing: Does responsibility matter? pp. 229-248

Elena Cettolin and Franziska Tausch

The effect of ambiguity on risk management choices: An experimental study pp. 249-280

Vickie Bajtelsmit, Jennifer Coats and Paul Thistle

Volume 50, issue 2, 2015

The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle pp. 97-115

Nicky Nicholls, Aylit Romm and Alexander Zimper

Erratum to: The impact of statistical learning on violations of the sure-thing principle pp. 117-117

Nicky Nicholls, Aylit Romm and Alexander Zimper

Choice reversal without temptation: A dynamic experiment on time preferences pp. 119-140

Marco Casari and Davide Dragone

Behavioral bias and the demand for bicycle and flood insurance pp. 141-160

Mark Browne, Christian Knoller and Andreas Richter

Parametric preference functionals under risk in the gain domain: A Bayesian analysis pp. 161-187

Kelvin Balcombe and Iain Fraser

Volume 50, issue 1, 2015

On preference imprecision pp. 1-34

Robin Cubitt, Daniel Navarro-Martinez and Chris Starmer

Subjective Bayesian beliefs pp. 35-54

Constantinos Antoniou, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau and Daniel Read

Gender differences in reward sensitivity and information processing during decision-making pp. 55-71

Kaileigh Byrne and Darrell Worthy

Peer effects in risk taking: Envy or conformity? pp. 73-95

Amrei Lahno and Marta Serra-Garcia

Volume 49, issue 3, 2014

Testing for independence while allowing for probabilistic choice pp. 189-211

Graham Loomes and Ganna Pogrebna

A general rationale for a governmental role in the relief of large risks pp. 213-234

Steven Shavell

Evidence that the accuracy of self-reported lead emissions data improved: A puzzle and discussion pp. 235-257

Sammy Zahran, Terrence Iverson, Stephan Weiler and Anthony Underwood

Volume 49, issue 2, 2014

Why Chinese discount future financial and environmental gains but not losses more than Americans pp. 103-124

Min Gong, David Krantz and Elke Weber

The neural correlates of contractual risk and penalty framing pp. 125-140

W. Ekins, Andrew Brooks and Gregory Berns

To bet or not to bet? Decision-making under risk in non-human primates pp. 141-166

M. Pelé, Marie-Hélène Broihanne, B. Thierry, J. Call and V. Dufour

The role of forgone opportunities in decision making under risk pp. 167-188

Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Daniel Navarro-Martinez and Gerardo Sabater-Grande

Volume 49, issue 1, 2014

The explanatory and predictive power of non two-stage-probability theories of decision making under ambiguity pp. 1-29

John Hey and Noemi Pace

Sampling experience reverses preferences for ambiguity pp. 31-42

Eyal Ert and Stefan Trautmann

Probability perceptions and preventive health care pp. 43-71

Katherine Carman and Peter Kooreman

Do we follow others when we should outside the lab? Evidence from the AP top 25 pp. 73-102

Daniel Stone and Basit Zafar

Volume 48, issue 3, 2014

Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life pp. 187-205

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak

Estimating subjective probabilities pp. 207-229

Steffen Andersen, John Fountain, Glenn Harrison and E. Rutström

Joint measurement of risk aversion, prudence, and temperance pp. 231-252

Sebastian Ebert and Daniel Wiesen

Buying and selling price for risky lotteries and expected utility theory with gambling wealth pp. 253-283

Michal Lewandowski

Volume 48, issue 2, 2014

Behavioral insurance: Theory and experiments pp. 85-96

Andreas Richter, Joerg Schiller and Harris Schlesinger

Insurance demand and social comparison: An experimental analysis pp. 97-109

Andreas Friedl, Katharina Lima de Miranda and Ulrich Schmidt

Take-up for genetic tests and ambiguity pp. 111-133

Michael Hoy, Richard Peter and Andreas Richter

Too risk averse to purchase insurance? pp. 135-166

Antoine Bommier and François Grand

An experimental investigation of risk sharing and adverse selection pp. 167-186

Franziska Tausch, Jan Potters and Arno Riedl

Volume 48, issue 1, 2014

An experimental test of prospect theory for predicting choice under ambiguity pp. 1-17

Amit Kothiyal, Vitalie Spinu and Peter Wakker

When Allais meets Ulysses: Dynamic axioms and the common ratio effect pp. 19-49

Antoine Nebout and Dimitri Dubois

On risk aversion, classical demand theory, and KM preferences pp. 51-66

Leonard Mirman and Marc Santugini

Prospect theory and the “forgotten” fourfold pattern of risk preferences pp. 67-83

Marc Scholten and Daniel Read