How people decide what they want to know

T Sharot, CR Sunstein - Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
… would have preferred not to learn 34 . A more parsimonious explanation is that people want
… It has also been shown that humans are more likely to pay for information when they expect …

Terrorist attacks and investor risk preference: Evidence from mutual fund flows

AY Wang, M Young - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
… We also believe mutual fund flows provide more direct evidence of investor risk preference
than prior studies based on stock market returns. Aggregate stock prices adjust to temporary …

Risk perception: Reflections on 40 years of research

M Siegrist, J Árvai - Risk analysis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… domain-specific knowledge) their risk perceptions tend to be… risk communication because,
if we understand better how to increase relevant knowledge among people, we can help them

Potato fluctuation and risk preference of potato farming in the Bromo Plateau, Indonesia

R Asmara, W Mamilianti, N Hanani… - AGRIVITA Journal of …, 2022 - agrivita.ub.ac.id
… ’ risk preferences, measure the level of technical efficiency, and determine the effect of risk
preference … The Just and Pope risk function is used with a utility function approach to finding …

Nexus of risk preference, culture and religion in the adoption of improved rice varieties: Evidence from Northern Ghana

M Tanko - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
… Savannah region for the Guan people. The extension officers assist the team in identifying
potential respondents as they know the community entry procedure, know the location of the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic

HF Chan, A Skali, DA Savage, D Stadelmann… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… -19 are a threat to our social fabric 2 , thus it is important to understand such occurrences …
For subnational regions where both mobility measures and risk preference measures are …

Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans' expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions

M Motta - Social science & medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
… I find that Americans have strong preferences for vaccine candidates produced in … their
potential effectiveness at preventing people from contracting the virus. Although we cannot know

[HTML][HTML] Political polarization in US residents' COVID-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors

W Bruine de Bruin, HW Saw, DP Goldman - Journal of risk and uncertainty, 2020 - Springer
their policy preferences as compared to risk perceptions and protective behaviors. … to
understand how people’s political inclinations and media use were associated with (1) their risk

[PDF][PDF] Who should get it first? Public preferences for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine

S Tubeuf, R Kessels - Covid Economics, 2020 - lirias.kuleuven.be
… to people over 60 years old. We know that, on average, these people run a much higher risk
of … to the people who spread the virus the most because they have a lot of social contacts in …

[HTML][HTML] Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Campos-Mercade, AN Meier, FH Schneider… - Journal of public …, 2021 - Elsevier
… be explained by motives such as risk preferences, time preferences, and worries about
being … for risk preferences allows us to better understand the relevance of social preferences. …