Choice under uncertainty and cognitive load

Adam Dominiak () and Peter Duersch ()
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Adam Dominiak: Aarhus University
Peter Duersch: University of Mannheim
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, vol. 68, issue 2, No 2, 133-161

Abstract: Abstract Does exposure to cognitive load affect key properties of economic behavior? In this experiment, subjects face a series of simple binary decision tasks between prospects, testing for monotonicity in monetary payments, consistency with (first-order) stochastic dominance, reduction of compound lotteries, risk attitudes, and ambiguity attitudes. Cognitive load is manipulated via simultaneous memory tasks. Our data show treatment differences resulting from cognitive load for decision tasks with risky outcomes. However, cognitive load has no impact on monotonicity and ambiguity attitudes. Under a dual-process view of human decision-making, our findings suggest that ambiguity attitudes and preferences for “more certain money” are intuitive, not reasoned.

Keywords: Cognitive load; Certainty; Risk; Ambiguity; Cognitive ability; Experiment; C91; D81; D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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