The current research clarifies the conditions under which safety enhancing interventions
backfire. A laboratory experiment compares three repeated choice conditions. In Condition …

In many contexts we are warned against engaging in risky behavior only after having past
safe experience. We examine the effect of safe experience on a warning's impact by …

New technology can be used to enhance safety by imposing costs, or taxes, on certain
reckless behaviors. The current paper presents two pre-registered experiments that clarify …

Whether buying stocks or playing the slots, people making real‐world risky decisions often
rely on their experiences with the risks and rewards. These decisions, however, do not occur …

The goal of this research is to clarify the conditions that trigger reluctance to take cost‐
effective safety measures. We present three experiments. In two of the experiments, the …

After making decisions, we often get feedback concerning forgone outcomes (what would
have happened had we chosen differently). Yet, many times, our exposure to such feedback …

Recent empirical evidence from field surveys and controlled laboratory experiments reveal
anomalies with respect to decisions by individuals to protect themselves against low …

Several theories of driving behavior have suggested that individuals will react to
environmental changes in a compensatory fashion such that riskier behaviors result from …

Many safety decisions rely on accurate knowledge about the current state of safety. Both the
absolute amount of safety and the trend toward increasing or decreasing safety are used to …

Many real-world decisions involving rare events also involve extreme outcomes. Despite this
confluence, decisions-from-experience research has only examined the impact of rarity and …