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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ambiguity Effects"”.
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Interpreting Uncertainty: Ambiguity Effects in the Evalution of Risk Information
In the second study, individual differences in context-specific attitudes were shown to moderate the influence of assessment uncertainty information on environmental risk perception. The presence or absence of assessment uncertainty information in hypothetical risk scenarios did not affect average …
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Achieving Late-Mover Advantage: The Effects of Enhancing and Distinctive Strategies
… mechanisms are identified — discrepancy effects (i.e., perceived differentiation) which add to the late entrant's visibility and attractiveness, and ambiguity effects (comparison difficulty and perceived performance risk) that lessen the late entrant's attractiveness. Product category …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Applying Prospect theory to Auctions
… as a combination of reactions to underlying ambiguity and anticipated loss aversion. Using data from experimental auctions, I provide evidence that in induced-value auctions with human bidders, this approach works well. In auctions with prior experience and /or against risk-neutral Nash …
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Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy
… high-literacy adults were less affected by the ambiguity, but the low-literacy adults showed larger ambiguity effects that tended to get larger with age. Collectively, these results suggest that uncontrolled activation of word meanings can impact online comprehension among older adults.