Effects of Risk and Ambiguity on Behavioral Choice and Resource Allocation Decisions

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Sawyer, John Edward

• Psychology, Industrial

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803191

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69708