Previous research shows that individuals who tend to get bored frequently and intensely—
the highly boredom prone—are more likely to engage in risky behaviors. However, these …

In many important real-world decision domains, such as finance, the environment, and
health, behavior is strongly influenced by experience. Renewed interest in studying this …

Do people's attitudes toward the (a) symmetry of an outcome distribution affect their
choices? Financial investors seek return distributions with frequent small returns but few …

Analyses of human reaction to economic incentives reveal contradictory deviations from
maximization. For example, underinvestment in the stock market suggests risk aversion, but …

Governments use taxes to discourage undesired behaviors and encourage desired ones.
One target of such interventions is reckless behavior, such as texting while driving, which in …

Experience is the best teacher. Yet, in the context of repeated decisions, experience was
found to trigger deviations from maximization in the direction of underweighting of rare …

There is ongoing debate over the usefulness of and need for attention checks in online
experiments. This paper investigates the value of these tests in decisions‐from‐experience …

We study how the degree of personal responsibility in prior investment decisions affects the
likelihood of changing an investment after experiencing a gain or loss. To this end we …

Given the rapid proliferation of smartphone applications and data aggregation websites, in
many situations people can use decision aids to guide their choices. For example, they may …

The behavioral finance literature highlights two apparently contradictory behaviors, both of
which presumably lead to impaired returns for investors–under-and overreaction to …