Living with uncertainty: Attractiveness and resolution timing.

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Risk as feelings. (2001, unknown): “Consistent with this interpretation, Lovallo and Kahneman (2000) found an extremely strong positive correlation between people's evaluations of the attractiveness of a set of gambles and their willingness to delay those gambles Recent theories that deal with delayed resolution preference have…”
The panic buying behavior of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the influences of uncertainty, perceptions of severity, perceptions of scarcity, and anxiety (2021, background): “Since people dislike uncertainty (Carleton, 2016), they tend to avoid it at any cost (Anderson et al., 2019; Lovallo and Kahneman, 2000).”
Midbrain dopamine neurons signal preference for advance information about upcoming rewards (2009, background): “, hunger), the value assigned to information is likely to depend on psychological factors such as personality (Miller, 1987), emotions like hope and anxiety (Chew and Ho, 1994; Wu, 1999), and attitudes toward uncertainty (Lovallo and Kahneman, 2000; Platt and Huettel, 2008).”
Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption (2013, unknown): “Subsequent research demonstrated similar effects in the domain of gambling, such that the more valuable the outcome of a gamble, the longer people were inclined to delay learning about the outcome (Lovallo & Kahneman, 2000).”