Some articles on expected utility theory, utility, theory, expected:
... applied to a space of simple lotteries, as in expected utility theory ... In this case a preference structure over lotteries can also be represented by a utility function ...
... In 1979, Kahneman and Tversky wrote Prospect theory An Analysis of Decision Under Risk, an important paper that used cognitive psychology to explain various divergences of economic decision making from neo-clas ... Prospect theory is an example of generalized expected utility theory ... Although not a conventional part of behavioral economics, generalized expected utility theory is similarly motivated by concerns about the descriptive inaccuracy of expected ...
... (who chose 1A alone or 2B alone) would choose both 1A and 2B together is inconsistent with expected utility theory ... According to expected utility theory, the person should choose either 1A and 2A or 1B and 2B ... The inconsistency stems from the fact that in expected utility theory, equal outcomes added to each of the two choices should have no effect on the relative ...
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