The Role of Personal Experience in Contributing to Different Patterns of Response to Rare Terrorist Attacks

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Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions (2013, methodology): “Following Yechiam et al. (2005) we focused on three variable: The proportion of risky choices (a measure of attitude toward losses), the proportion of “Best relpy-1 (a measure of a recency effect), and the distance between the mean choice rate and 0.”
The effect of foregone payoffs on underweighting small probability events (2006, methodology): “The present results are further supported by a recent study that focused on the choices of student drug abusers compared to non-abusers (Yechiam et al., 2005).”
The Description-Experience Gap in Risky Choice: The Role of Sample Size and Experienced Probabilities (2008, background): “One reason may be that dry facts and figures cannot take the place of authentic experience (but see Yechiam et al., 2005 ).”
Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet) (2006, background): “4For an interesting demonstration of this result in the context of domestic and foreign tourist reactions to terrorist activity in Israel see Yechiam et al. (2004).”
Living through the Great Chinese Famine: Early-life experiences and managerial decisions ☆ (2018, background): “Research on behavioral decision suggests that people tend to be oversensitive to rare events and that this can have a significant impact on their subsequent decisions (e.g., Lichtenstein et al., 1978; Yechiam et al., 2005).”