作者:Vieider, Ferdinand M.
作者单位:University of Reading
摘要:In this comment on Callen et al. (20141), I revisit recent evidence uncovering a preference for certainty in violation of dominant normative and descriptive theories of decision-making under risk. I show that the empirical findings are potentially confounded by systematic noise. I then develop choice lists that allow me to disentangle these different explanations. Experimental results obtained with these lists reject explanations based on a preference for certainty in favor of explanations bas...