Risk Preferences in Surrogate Decision Making
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Risk Preferences in Surrogate Decision Making
There is growing evidence that decisions made on behalf of other people differ from the decisions we make for ourselves because we are less affected by the subjective experience of their outcome. As a result, the decisions we make for other people can be more optimal. This experiment investigated surrogate decision making using a probability discounting task where participants made choices betw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1618-3169,2190-5142
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000371