The literature suggests that human perception and behavior vary with physical temperature. We provide an experimental test of how...

The literature reports a tendency that future losses are discounted less than future gains, the so-called sign effect in intertemporal...

Problem gamblers discount delayed rewards more rapidly than do non-gambling controls. Understanding this impulsivity is important for...

This study contributes to the public debate on gender quotas and the literature on gender and risk taking by analysing how the level...

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an...

We examine experimentally individual preferences for redistributions in the US, Italy, and Norway. Twenty-one subjects were assigned...

Reducing criminal acts in society is a crucial duty of governments. Establishing punishment structures to attain this goal involves...

This paper complements evidence on the Allais paradox from advanced countries and educated people by a novel investigation in a poor...

Public opinion has a substantial impact on political actions. However, public opinion might be driven by temporary emotions. If these...

The present paper contributes to the controversy regarding gender differences in risk taking by investigating the impact of social...

Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent experimental...

This paper establishes a new method for eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market goods in contingent valuation (CV) studies...

Economic experiments report that individuals perform better under a piece rate payment scheme in comparison to a fixed payment scheme....

Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage sub-seabed (CCS-S) are currently controversially debated options to address...

Common ratio effects should be ruled out if subjects' preferences satisfy compound independence, reduction of compound lotteries, and...

Most experiments on decision theory ask individual subjects to make more than one decision. The isolation hypothesis is commonly used...

Solar radiation management (SRM) could quickly offset global warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Because SRM...

We present a preference foundation for Chance Theory (CT), a model of decision making under uncertainty where the evaluation of an act...

This paper analyzes whether social comparison can explain the low take up of disaster insurance usually reported in field studies. We...