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Showing 1 to 20 of 513 for “"Aversion"”.
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Imagery and Contamination Aversion
<p>Contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the most common form of OCD. Recent research indicates that the emotion of disgust may play a primary role in the etiology and maintenance in contamination-based OCD (CB-OCD). However, little is known about the effects of disgust on …
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Ambiguity Aversion in Commodity Markets
… adopt the framework of ambiguity aversion to protect themselves, and utilize a robust indifference pricing framework for valuation and hedging. Most exotic financial options written on commodities are valued by discretizing continuous-time and state models. Thus, in the first part …
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Gender and Financial Risk Aversion
… researchers have linked investors’ risk aversion to several individual characteristics of theirs, such as their age, their income or their financial knowledge. However, an investor’s characteristic, somehow overlooked or not properly investigated, has been the investor’s gender, and the …
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Ambiguity Aversion: Adoption, Uptake, and Trends
<p>What is ambiguity aversion and what is its role as a determinant of technology adoption? This study develops and implements a novel ambiguity preference instrument in the context of an ongoing RCT pilot program in southwest Uganda promoting adoption of an improved variety of sweet potato. No …
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Risk aversion in the warrant markets
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1963.
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Model complexity and risk aversion in decision analysis
… utility functions modeling small-scale risk aversion result in absurd risk aversion for large uncertainties. They explain small-scale risk aversion is due to loss aversion, where pain from losses exceeds benefit from gains. But preferences for deterministic losses and gains is a deterministic …
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
… gaps within the framework of a model with loss aversion and inherited reference consumption. When people have loss-averse preferences, low aspirations lead to lower levels of chosen education. Loss aversion and low aspirations can lead to education outcomes similar to those caused by outright …
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Essays on loss aversion and household portfolio choice
"This dissertation studies how loss-aversion, i.e., people's behavioral tendency to be more sensitive to potential losses than the same amount of potential gains, affects households' insurance buying decisions and savings decisions. The first chapter, ""Prospect Theory and Insurance Demand,"" tries …
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Risk Aversion and Consumer Choice With Many Commodities
The Arrow-Pratt analysis of risk aversion offers a cogent explanation of how changes in attitudes towards risk affect the choices of expected utility maximizing agents whose preferences are defined over a single variable, wealth. The restriction of the analysis to utility functions of one argument, …
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Stimulus Aversion as a Function of Stimulus Complexity
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On the early development of disadvantageous inequity aversion
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Aversion therapy with alcoolism: a review of the litterature
… of moderate or abstinence responses. Three aversion models of therapy: the classical, the punishment and the avoidance models have been described and the evolution of their application to alcoholism has been reviewed in detail. The survey also attempted to relate the transition from …
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Age and Loss Aversion: Impact on PGA Tour Professionals
… affect players' risk-seeking or risk aversion behaviors.
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Prospective Balance: Loss Aversion and Consistency in International Relations
… syndrome, intentional clarity, widespread loss aversion, and affective abandonment of rational consistency, comprise the outcomes to be explained. Because neorealism is predicated upon maximizing rationality, its predicate is expected utility theory, in which states take actions should they …
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Extracting risk aversion estimates from option prices/implied volatility
The risk neutral density function is the distribution implied by the market price of derivative securities, namely options. It encloses the assumption that arbi-trage free conditions persist in the market. Given the historical evolution of stock prices, an investor will form some belief about the …
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GENETIC DISSECTION OF AVERSION TO ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE IN Drosophila melanogaster
… Channels, leading to many animal's behavioral aversion to the chemicals the plants produce. The TRPA subfamily, which in mammals has one member (TRPA1) responds to many electrophiles, including allyl isothiocyanate (AITC). Drosophila have four homologs to the mammalian TRPA1: dTRPA1, painless, …
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CONSUMMATORY RESPONSE STRENGTH IN THE ANALYSIS OF TASTE-AVERSION LEARNING
… neutral events as conditioned stimuli. Taste-aversion conditioning studies, on the other hand, use as conditioned stimuli flavored solutions with distinct motivational or response-determining properties. It is possible that many of the differences between taste-aversion conditioning and other …
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A developmental examination of inequity aversion in 4-year-olds
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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