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An experimental investigation of violations of transitivity in choice under uncertainty
Several models of choice under uncertainty imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Our experiments explored whether people show patterns of intransitivity predicted by these models. To distinguish "true" violations from those produced by "error", a model was fit in which each choice can have a different error rate and each person can have a different pattern of true preferences that does not need to be transitive. Error rate for a choice is estimated from preference reversals between repeated presentations of the same choice. Our results showed that very few people repeated intransitive patterns. We can retain the hypothesis that transitivity best describes the data of the vast majority of participants.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1396
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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Errors
Regret theory
Transitivity
Decision making
Entscheidung bei Risiko
Präferenztheorie
Experiment
Theorie
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Birnbaum, Michael H.
Schmidt, Ulrich
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
- (where)
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Kiel
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Birnbaum, Michael H.
- Schmidt, Ulrich
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Time of origin
- 2008