Packaging waste makes up more than 10% of the landfilled waste in the United States.
While consumers often want to make environmentally friendly product choices, we find that …

This chapter focuses on studies of decision making under risk. It examines how insights from
studies of risky choice can be extended more generally to uncertainty. An overview of …

We study the problem of active portfolio management where an investor aims to outperform
a benchmark strategy's risk profile while not deviating too far from it. Specifically, an investor …

Stylized characteristics, such as loss aversion, risk aversion for gains, risk seeking for
losses, overweighting of small probabilities, and diminishing sensitivity permeate both …

Judgment is an important concept in business and management research and related to
several subfields, ranging from staff appraisal and entrepreneurship to strategic decision …

Past research suggests that actors often seek to minimize harm at the cost of maximizing
social welfare. However, this prior research has confounded a desire to minimize the …

Rational choice theory in criminology is based on a model of decision-making, expected
utility theory (EUT), that research in psychology and economics has shown to be …

The influenza vaccination rate remains unsatisfactorily low, especially in the healthy adult
population. The positive deviant approach was used to identify key psychosocial factors …

The marketplace is replete with productivity metrics that put units of output in the numerator
and one unit of time in the denominator (eg, megabits per second [Mbps] to measure …

When people evaluate numerical differences, they can focus on the relative differences or
the absolute differences. However, it is unclear who does what and when. The authors …