Feedback Influences Discriminability and Attractiveness Components of Probability Weighting in Descriptive Choice Under Risk

Frontiers in Psychology

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Shruti Goyal¹  Krishna P. Miyapuram¹ 

[1] Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

关键词: risk;    descriptive choice;    feedback;    probability weighting;    prospect theory;    discriminability;    attractiveness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00962

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Our understanding of the decisions made under scenarios where both descriptive and experience-based information are available is very limited. Underweighting of small probabilities was observed in the gain domain when both description and experience were provided. The divergence observed from the prospect theory suggests a need for a separate or modified theory of decision making under risk. Recent studies suggest a possible role of probability weighting in the choice behavior under risk. We investigated both gain and loss domains with and without feedback for small and large probability conditions. We characterized the shape of the probability weighting function by a two-parameter functional form representing discriminability (concave-convex shape) and attractiveness (level of absolute weights relative to objective probability). We replicated a fourfold pattern of risk attitude on non-WEIRD population. We find that feedback leads to underweighting of small probabilities and overweighting of large probabilities in the gain domain and overall underweighting of probabilities in the loss domain. We find that underweighting of small probabilities is driven by changes in discriminability and attractiveness components in the gain domain and changes in the attractiveness component in the loss domain. We have interpreted the results by proposing an updated belief-based account of decisions under uncertainty in which feedback, when available, influences the probability weighting mediating the choice behavior.

【 授权许可】

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