Effects of Risk and Ambiguity on Behavioral Choice and Resource Allocation Decisions
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description: Decision researchers have consistently found that uncertainty has separate effects on judgments and choices. Decision theorists typically focus on binary choice alternatives. However, many decision problems involve determining optimal allocations of resources across continuously distributed competing demands. Scholars of organizational behavior have suggested that individuals form a perception of the form of the contingency functions that relate acts to outcomes. They assume that individuals then behave with respect to those perceived contingency functions, without regard to uncertainty related to those contingencies.
abstract: Decision researchers have consistently found that uncertainty has separate effects on judgments and choices. Decision theorists typically focus on binary choice alternatives. However, many decision problems involve determining optimal allocations of resources across continuously distributed competing demands. Scholars of organizational behavior have suggested that individuals form a perception of the form of the contingency functions that relate acts to outcomes. They assume that individuals then behave with respect to those perceived contingency functions, without regard to uncertainty related to those contingencies.
author: Sawyer, John Edward
keywords: Psychology, Industrial
date published: 2014-12-15T19:46:28Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:01Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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