Experiencing Risk: Higher-Order Risk Attitudes in Description- and Experience-Based Decisions [Dataset]

DOI

Risky decisions are often characterized by (a) imprecision about consequences and their likelihoods that can be reduced by information collection, and by (b) unavoidable background risk. This article addresses both aspects by eliciting risk attitude, prudence, and temperance in decisions from description and decisions from experience. The results reveal a novel description-experience gap for prudence and replicate the known gap for risky decisions. While widespread prudence has been observed in decisions form description, we find no evidence of prudent decision making from experience. In decisions from experience people are strongly influenced by the sampled mean, while skewness plays a smaller role than in decisions from description.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/CMCIXT
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000975
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/CMCIXT
Provenance
Creator Becker, Christoph K. ORCID logo; Ert, Eyal ORCID logo; Trautmann, Stefan T. ORCID logo; van de Kuilen, Gijs
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Trautmann, Stefan T.; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2021
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Trautmann, Stefan T. (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics, Heidelberg University)
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 6242328; 4017807
Version 1.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences