Back to search

When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory

Data up to Jan 2025

Published1999
Citations223
References52

Total Citations Per Year

Abstract

References (52)

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

1975 • 23,866 citations

Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty

1992 • 14,173 citations

Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms

1961 • 7,563 citations

FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS

2001 • 7,247 citations

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

1984 • 5,967 citations

The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

1992 • 5,227 citations

Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases

1982 • 3,614 citations

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

1992 • 3,380 citations

Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality.

1996 • 3,123 citations

The Language Instinct

1994 • 3,054 citations

The organization of learning

1990 • 2,556 citations

The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task

1989 • 2,449 citations

THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS

1954 • 2,136 citations

How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction: Frequency formats.

1995 • 1,950 citations

Recent developments in modeling preferences: Uncertainty and ambiguity

1992 • 1,777 citations

Preference and belief: Ambiguity and competence in choice under uncertainty

1991 • 1,720 citations

Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method (1964)

1974 • 1,646 citations

Reason-based choice

1993 • 1,420 citations

The organization of learning

1991 • 1,368 citations

Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty

1996 • 1,294 citations

On the reality of cognitive illusions.

1996 • 1,268 citations

How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”

1991 • 1,129 citations

On narrow norms and vague heuristics: A reply to Kahneman and Tversky.

1996 • 995 citations

Ambiguity and uncertainty in probabilistic inference.

1985 • 775 citations

Ambiguity Aversion and Comparative Ignorance

2000 • 713 citations

Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice

1992 • 666 citations

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II

1989 • 663 citations

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I

1989 • 641 citations

Decision Making Under Ambiguity

1986 • 638 citations

Psychological sources of ambiguity avoidance

1986 • 524 citations

Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

1994 • 502 citations

Ambiguity and rationality

1988 • 453 citations

Translation of Gambles and Aspiration Level Effects in Risky Choice Behavior

1980 • 353 citations

Energy budgets, risk and foraging preferences in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

1981 • 331 citations

Why the distinction between single-event probabilities and frequencies is important for psychology (and vice versa).

1994 • 234 citations

Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The role of frequency and whole-object representations in judgment under uncertainty.

1998 • 231 citations

Descriptive and Normative Implications of the Decision-Theory Postulates

1968 • 217 citations

The center and range of the probability interval as factors affecting ambiguity preferences

1985 • 189 citations

Characterization of ambiguity in decision making

1976 • 189 citations

Components of risk in decision making: Probability and variance preferences.

1960 • 167 citations

The evolution of mind

1998 • 161 citations

An empirical evaluation of descriptive models of ambiguity reactions in choice situations

1989 • 136 citations

Some thoughts on the psychological concept of risk.

1983 • 118 citations

Ecological intelligence: An adaptation for frequencies

1997 • 111 citations

When Time Is of the Essence: Averaging, Aspiration, and the Short Run

1996 • 98 citations

Decision theory, the pigeon, and the psychophysical function.

1967 • 88 citations

Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all

1996 • 68 citations

Evolutionary hypotheses of risk-sensitive choice: Age differences and perspective change

1996 • 53 citations

Bases for preferences among three-outcome bets.

1965 • 52 citations

Robust Tolerance for Ambiguity

1994 • 33 citations

A Logical Design for the Mind?

1996 • 31 citations

Subjective Probability

1995 • 31 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...