Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Prospect theory for continuous distributions: A preference foundation pp. 195-210: Amit Kothiyal, Vitalie Spinu and Peter Wakker
Is imprecise knowledge better than conflicting expertise? Evidence from insurers’ decisions in the United States pp. 211-232: Laure Cabantous, Denis Hilton, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Dopamine receptor genes predict risk preferences, time preferences, and related economic choices pp. 233-261: Jeffrey Carpenter, Justin Garcia and J. Lum
Self-protection against repeated low probability risks pp. 263-285: Aric Shafran

Dynamic decision making: what do people do? pp. 85-123: John Hey and Luca Panaccione
Discount rates, social judgments, individuals’ risk preferences, and uncertainty pp. 125-143: Louis Kaplow and David Weisbach
Assessing small non-zero perceptions of chance: The case of H1N1 (swine) flu risks pp. 145-159: Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andrew Parker and Jürgen Maurer
Information, risk perceptions, and smoking choices of youth pp. 161-193: Frank Sloan and Alyssa Platt

Digit ratios (2D:4D) as predictors of risky decision making for both sexes pp. 1-26: Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim and Justin Sydnor
Ambiguity aversion and the propensities for self-insurance and self-protection pp. 27-43: Arthur Snow
A Diamond-Stiglitz approach to the demand for self-protection pp. 45-60: Donald Meyer and Jack Meyer
Monetary incentives in the loss domain and behavior toward risk: An experimental comparison of three reward schemes including real losses pp. 61-83: Nathalie Etchart-Vincent and Olivier l’Haridon

Risk aversion and physical prowess: Prediction, choice and bias pp. 167-193: Sheryl Ball, Catherine Eckel and Maria Heracleous
How would you like your gain in life expectancy to be provided? An experimental approach pp. 195-218: Jytte Nielsen, Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee and Hugh Metcalf
Eliciting risk preferences: When is simple better? pp. 219-243: Chetan Dave, Catherine Eckel, Cathleen Johnson and Christian Rojas
Demand for health risk reductions: A cross-national comparison between the U.S. and Canada pp. 245-273: Trudy Cameron, J. DeShazo and Peter Stiffler

The descriptive and predictive adequacy of theories of decision making under uncertainty/ambiguity pp. 81-111: John Hey, Gianna Lotito and Anna Maffioletti
A simplified axiomatic approach to ambiguity aversion pp. 113-124: William Neilson
The hyperbolic factor: A measure of time inconsistency pp. 125-140: Kirsten Rohde
The attraction of uncertainty: Interactions between skill and levels of uncertainty in market-entry games pp. 141-166: Natalia Karelaia and Robin Hogarth

Excluded losses and the demand for insurance pp. 1-18: Donald Meyer and Jack Meyer
Behavioral assumptions for a class of utility theories: A program of experiments pp. 19-37: R. Luce
Separating curvature and elevation: A parametric probability weighting function pp. 39-65: Mohammed Abdellaoui, Olivier L’Haridon and Horst Zank
At the nexus of risk and time preferences: An experimental investigation pp. 67-79: Keith Coble and Jayson Lusk

How do people value extended warranties? Evidence from two field surveys pp. 197-218: Marieke Huysentruyt and Daniel Read
Reverse common ratio effect pp. 219-241: Pavlo Blavatskyy
Do ambiguity avoidance and the comparative ignorance hypothesis depend on people’s affective reactions? pp. 243-254: Enrico Rubaltelli, Rino Rumiati and Paul Slovic
Emotional decision-makers and anomalous attitudes towards information pp. 255-280: Francesca Barigozzi and Rosella Levaggi

Competence effects for choices involving gains and losses pp. 109-132: José Lara Resende and George Wu
Ambiguity and the value of information pp. 133-145: Arthur Snow
Rationality on the rise: Why relative risk aversion increases with stake size pp. 147-180: Helga Fehr-Duda, Adrian Bruhin, Thomas Epper and Renate Schubert
Do people respond to low probability risks? Evidence from tornado risk and manufactured homes pp. 181-196: Daniel Sutter and Marc Poitras

The heterogeneity of the value of statistical life: Introduction and overview pp. 1-13: W Viscusi
Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: New evidence from panel data quantile regressions pp. 15-31: Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak
Measuring how risk tradeoffs adjust with income pp. 33-55: Mary Evans and V. Smith
Valuing fatal risks to children and adults: Effects of disease, latency, and risk aversion pp. 57-83: James Hammitt and Kevin Haninger
Responsibility, scale and the valuation of rail safety pp. 85-108: Judith Covey, Angela Robinson, Michael Jones-Lee and Graham Loomes

Noise and bias in eliciting preferences pp. 213-235: John Hey, Andrea Morone and Ulrich Schmidt
Preference reversals and probabilistic decisions pp. 237-250: Pavlo Blavatskyy
Group cooperation under uncertainty pp. 251-270: Min Gong, Jonathan Baron and Howard Kunreuther
The influence of fear in decisions: Experimental evidence pp. 271-298: Olivier Chanel and Graciela Chichilnisky

Taste uncertainty and status quo effects in consumer choice pp. 113-135: Graham Loomes, Shepley Orr and Robert Sugden
Are risk preferences stable? Comparing an experimental measure with a validated survey-based measure pp. 137-160: Lisa Anderson and Jennifer Mellor
Dirty money: Is there a wage premium for working in a pollution intensive industry? pp. 161-180: Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Joanne Lindley
On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs pp. 181-212: Alexander Zimper and Alexander Ludwig

A theory of medical decision making under uncertainty pp. 1-16: Edi Karni
Insurance decisions for low-probability losses pp. 17-44: Susan Laury, Melayne McInnes and J. Swarthout
Probability weighting and the ‘level’ and ‘spacing’ of outcomes: An experimental study over losses pp. 45-63: Nathalie Etchart-Vincent
Precautionary behavior and willingness to pay for a mortality risk reduction: Searching for the expected relationship pp. 65-85: Mikael Svensson
Time discounting: Declining impatience and interval effect pp. 87-112: Yusuke Kinari, Fumio Ohtake and Yoshiro Tsutsui