Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2026

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 44, issue 3, 2012

Avoiding the curves: Direct elicitation of time preferences pp. 181-217

Susan Laury, Melayne McInnes and J. Swarthout

Updating beliefs with imperfect signals: Experimental evidence pp. 219-241

François Poinas, Julie Rosaz and Béatrice Roussillon

Decreasing absolute risk aversion, prudence and increased downside risk aversion pp. 243-260

Liqun Liu and Jack Meyer

Allais for all: Revisiting the paradox in a large representative sample pp. 261-293

Steffen Huck and Wieland Müller

Volume 44, issue 2, 2012

The disgust-promotes-disposal effect pp. 101-113

Seunghee Han, Jennifer Lerner and Richard Zeckhauser

Aggregating imprecise or conflicting beliefs: An experimental investigation using modern ambiguity theories pp. 115-147

Aurelien Baillon, Laure Cabantous and Peter Wakker

The Schwarzian derivative as a ranking of downside risk aversion pp. 149-160

Donald Keenan and Arthur Snow

Belief elicitation in the presence of naïve respondents: An experimental study pp. 161-180

Li Hao and Daniel Houser

Volume 44, issue 1, 2012

Ambiguity aversion and familiarity bias: Evidence from behavioral and gene association studies pp. 1-18

Soo Chew, Richard Ebstein and Songfa Zhong

Reference-dependent valuations of risk: Why willingness-to-accept exceeds willingness-to-pay pp. 19-44

W Viscusi and Joel Huber

Social comparison and risky choices pp. 45-72

Jona Linde and Joep Sonnemans

Deterrence, expected cost, uncertainty and voting: Experimental evidence pp. 73-100

Gregory DeAngelo and Gary Charness

Volume 43, issue 3, 2011

Viewing the future through a warped lens: Why uncertainty generates hyperbolic discounting pp. 169-203

Thomas Epper, Helga Fehr-Duda and Adrian Bruhin

Risk attitudes in a social context pp. 205-225

Ingrid Rohde and Kirsten Rohde

Controlling for initial endowment and experience in binary choice tasks pp. 227-243

Enrique Fatas, Francisca Jiménez and Antonio Morales

Does nurture matter: Theory and experimental investigation on the effect of working environment on risk and time preferences pp. 245-270

Quang Nguyen

Volume 43, issue 2, 2011

Risky investment decisions: How are individuals influenced by their groups? pp. 81-106

W Viscusi, Owen Phillips and Stephan Kroll

Asymmetric discounting of gains and losses: A query theory account pp. 107-126

Kirstin Appelt, David Hardisty and Elke Weber

Guaranteed renewability uniquely prevents adverse selection in individual health insurance pp. 127-139

Mark Pauly, Kai Menzel, Howard Kunreuther and Richard Hirth

Does sorry work? The impact of apology laws on medical malpractice pp. 141-167

Benjamin Ho and Elaine Liu

Volume 43, issue 1, 2011

A theorem for Bayesian group decisions pp. 1-17

Ralph Keeney and Robert Nau

Dopamine and risk choices in different domains: Findings among serious tournament bridge players pp. 19-38

Anna Dreber, David Rand, Nils Wernerfelt, Justin Garcia, Miguel Vilar, J. Lum and Richard Zeckhauser

Preference towards control in risk taking: Control, no control, or randomize? pp. 39-63

King King Li

Two-sided intergenerational moral hazard, long-term care insurance, and nursing home use pp. 65-80

Christophe Courbage and Peter Zweifel

Volume 42, issue 3, 2011

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

Volume 42, issue 2, 2011

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

Volume 42, issue 1, 2011

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

Volume 41, issue 3, 2010

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

Volume 41, issue 2, 2010

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

Volume 41, issue 1, 2010

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

Volume 40, issue 3, 2010

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

Volume 40, issue 2, 2010

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

Volume 40, issue 1, 2010

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