Prospect theory or construal level theory? Diminishing sensitivity vs. psychological distance in risky decisions [Dataset]

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Attitudes toward risks are central to organizational decisions. These attitudes are commonly modeled by prospect theory. Construal level theory has been proposed as an alternative theory of risky choice, accounting for psychological distance deriving from temporal, spatial and social aspects of risk that are typical of agency situations. Unnoticed in the literature, the two theories make contradicting predictions. The current study investigates which theory provides a better description of risky decisions in the presence of temporal, spatial, and social factors. We find that the psychophysical effects modeled by prospect theory dominate the psychological distance effects of construal level theory.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/10040
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.08.006
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/10040
Provenance
Creator Trautmann, Stefan T.; Van de Kuilen, Gijs
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Stefan Trautmann; HeiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2015
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Stefan Trautmann (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics)
Representation
Resource Type behavioral experiment; laboratory; Dataset
Format application/octet-stream; application/pdf
Size 25166; 18139; 74151; 25040; 105824; 13620; 66826; 16636; 65931
Version 2.1
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences
Spatial Coverage Tilburg, The Netherlands