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Web-Based Program of Research on Risky Decision Making Michael H. Birnbaum California State University, Fullerton
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Case Against Prospect Theory Violations of Stochastic Dominance Violations of Coalescing (Event-Splitting) Violations of Upper Tail Independence Violations of Lower Cumulative Independence Violations of Upper Cumulative Independence
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Recipe: Violations of Stochastic Dominance
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Which gamble would you prefer to play? Gamble AGamble B 90 reds to win $96 05 blues to win $14 05 whites to win $12 85 reds to win $96 05 blues to win $90 10 whites to win $12 70% of undergrads choose B
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Which of these gambles would you prefer to play? Gamble CGamble D 85 reds to win $96 05 greens to win $96 05 blues to win $14 05 whites to win $12 85 reds to win $96 05 greens to win $90 05 blues to win $12 05 whites to win $12 90% choose C over D
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Case Against Prospect Theory-2 Violations of Restricted Branch Independence are opposite predictions of inverse-S weighting function needed to explain the Allais Paradoxes Violations of 3- and 4-Distribution Independence are opposite the patterns predicted by the inverse-S weighting function.
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Decision Theories and Allais Paradox Branch Independence CoalescingSatisfiedViolated SatisfiedEU, CPT* OPT* RDU, CPT* ViolatedOPT*RAM, TAX
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