This introductory article lays out the objectives for this special issue of Migration and Society . In focusing on stakes sanctuary, both introduction concentrate ways sanctuary is inspired by, connected to, symbolic larger political social processes. To see what at stake, we outline some myriad possible meanings examine justifications given by actors who offer take including notions justice, s...

Within the expected-utility framework, the only explanation for risk aversion is that the utility function for wealth is concave: A person has lower marginal utility for additional wealth when she is wealthy than when she is poor. This paper provides a theorem showing that expected-utility theory is an utterly implausible explanation for appreciable risk aversion over modest stakes: Within expe...

Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively. Using Mturk, we recruited 756 subjects and examined their behavior in four canonical economic games, with two payoff conditions each: a stakes condition, in which subjects' earnings were based on the outcome of the game (maximum earnings of $...

To illustrate, Folk stakes sensitivity says that all else equal, people are less likely to say that Sarah knows that her health insurance is current, if she is about to get hit by a bus and incur huge medical bills. Folk stakes sensitivity holds intrinsic interest to anyone interested in the psychological basis of knowledge ascription. It holds further interest to epistemologists by featuring a...

Most studies on the effect of incentives on risk attitude use within-subject designs. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability prospects. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking for small probabiliti...

Explaining cooperation between non-relatives is a puzzle for both evolutionary biology and the social sciences. In humans, cooperation is often studied in a laboratory setting using economic games such as the prisoners' dilemma. However, such experiments are sometimes criticized for being played for low stakes and by misrepresentative student samples. Golden balls is a televised game show that ...

In the 21st century, with rise of popularity standardized or large-scale tests, their high-stakes have started to be apparent. High-stake tests are not new, but in most cases, current use as social practice tends shape individuals’ futures. Currently new trend for quality discussion aims critically evaluate through focus on functions, and power testing discourse, whereas traditionally what was ...