Violations of Monotonicity and Contextual Effects in Choice-Based Certainty Equivalents
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 3 (5) , 310-315
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1992.tb00679.x
Abstract
This article investigates choices between gambles and amounts of money to explore two issues in decision making First, in recent studies, judgments of the values of gambles violated monotonicity (dominance), yet choices between the same gambles satisfied monotonicity, producing reversals of preference This experiment tested whether certainty equivalents based on choices between gambles and money would violate monotonicity Results indicated that these choices violated monotonicity in the same way as had Judgments Second, this experiment investigated whether the certainty equivalent of a gamble would depend on the distribution of amounts offered for comparison It was found that certainty equivalents based on choices depended on the context in the same fashion as psychophysical comparisons Apparently, paradoxes of behavioral decision making are not eliminated by using choices instead of judgments to investigate human preferencesKeywords
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