Probability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law

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The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis (2012, neutral): “The level of resources or wealth clearly plays a major role in economic insecurity, and 7 Difficulties may be cognitive—e.g. Sunstein (2002), Quartz (2009), Slovic (2000)—or informational as in Dickens (1984).”
Terrorism and Probability Neglect (2003, methodology): “terrorism, in Sunstein (2002b); there is overlap between the two discussions.”
Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and Entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies (2013, background): “Furthermore, entrepreneurs may be less likely to persist in a failing course of action if they make an effort to minimize the tendency to neglect probability in emotional decisions (Sunstein, 2002).”
The affect gap in risky choice : Affect-rich outcomes attenuate attention to probability information (2014, background): “Specifically, it has been proposed that in affect-rich choice people show “probability neglect” (Sunstein, 2002).”
How to define and measure risk perceptions (2019, background): “This is a bias known as probability neglect (Slovic & Peters, 2006; Sunstein, 2002).”
Stubborn Reliance on Intuition and Subjectivity in Employee Selection (2008, background): “Research on probability neglect (Sunstein, 2002) suggests that people make little distinction between probabilities that they consider small.”