Attractions to and repulsions from chance

Robin Pope

pp. 95-107

in: Werner Leinfellner, Eckehart Köhler (eds), Game theory, experience, rationality, Berlin, Springer, 1998

Abstrakt

This paper is concerned with the discussion of the phenomenon sometimes described as "the utility and disutility of chance" both from the descriptive and the prescriptive point of view Emphasis is not on axioms and formal properties but on the psychological content of decision theoretic constructs.