• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Violations of first-order stochastic dominance as salience effects
  • Contributor: Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus [Author]; Köster, Mats [Author]
  • Published: Düsseldorf: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), 2015
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-3-86304-188-5
  • Keywords: First-order stochastic dominance ; D8 ; Prospect theory ; Framing effects ; Salience theory
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  • Description: In contradiction to expected utility theory, various studies find that splitting events or attributes into subevents and subattributes can reverse a decision maker's choices. Most notably, these effects can induce first-order stochastic dominated choices. These violations of first-order stochastic dominance are framing effects, which expected utility theory, cumulative prospect theory and salience theory of choice under risk cannot account for. However, we propose a version of salience theory which unravels the underlying mechanism triggering such effects and which can explain the impact of event- and attribute-splitting on choices. Hereby, we provide further rationale for the broad validity of the salience mechanism and its strong descriptive power concerning human decision making.
  • Access State: Open Access