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  • Sex differences in the risks a person selects for himself and the risks he selects for someone else 
    Slovic, Paul; Weinstein, Malcolm S.; Lichtenstein, Sarah (1967)
    102 undergraduates, working in pairs, selected bets for themselves and bets for the "other subject" to play. It was found that persons chose essentially the same probability of winning for the other person as for themselves, ...
  • Structuring as an Aid to Performance in Base-Rate Problems 
    Lichtenstein, Sarah; MacGregor, Donald G. (Decision Research, 1984)
    Four groups of college students were each given two base-rate problems. Three of the groups were given an aid with the first problem: (a) An instruction to list factors or aspects that were relevant to solving the ...
  • A Subjectivist View of Calibration 
    Kadane, Joseph B.; Lichtenstein, Sarah (Decision Research, 1982)
    Calibration concerns the relationship between subjective probabilities and the long-run frequencies of events. Theorems from the statistical and probability literature are reviewed to discover the conditions under which ...
  • Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive Approach 
    Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin (1993)
    The use of contingent valuation (CV) methods for estimating the economic value of environmental improvements and damages has increased significantly. However, doubts exist regarding the validity of the usual willingness ...
  • What’s bad is easy: Taboo values, affect, and cognition 
    Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Irwin, Julie (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2007-06)
    Some decision situations are so objectionable or repugnant that people refuse to make a choice. This paper seeks to better understand taboo responses, and to distinguish choices that are truly taboo from those that are ...
  • When lives are in your hands: Dilemmas of the societal decision maker 
    Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Slovic, Paul; Wagenaar, Willem A. (1990)
    A Societal Decision Maker (SDM) is a person who makes risky decisions on behalf of others. Most of the time, such decisions should be based on the wishes and beliefs pf the affected people. This paper explores a few cases ...

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