The Psychology of Human Risk Preferences and Vulnerability to Scare-Mongers: Experimental Economic Tools for Hypothesis Formulation and Testing
The Internet and social media have opened niches for political exploitation of human dispositions to hyper-alarmed states that amplify perceived threats relative to their objective probabilities of occurrence. Researchers should aim to observe the dynamic “ramping up” of security threat mechanisms u...
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2016
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 16, Issue: 5, Pages: 383-414 |
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expected utility theory
experimental economics
heterogeneity of preference and belief structures
human risk preferences
rank dependent utility
security threats
subjective beliefs about probabilities
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