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hu, 25 Feb 2010 12:12:51 GM

Pseudocertainty​ effect. - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. 23. Selective perception - the tendency for expectations to affect ...

The Psy-Fi Blog: The Death of Homo economicus

(timarr)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:27:00 GM

For example there's the . pseudocertainty​ effect. where by wording a situation with the same outcome differently you can get groups of people to give you completely the opposite answer. It's a frightening but perfectly repeatable ...

How People Make Bad Decisions

The Trizle Team

ue, 19 Jan 2010 14:13:37 GM

The . pseudocertainty​ effect. . We take less risks if we expect a positive outcome. We take WAY more risks if we think we have to avoid a negative outcome. If a business is headed toward the dumps (or even experiences a hint of failure), ...

extempore: slave to the biases

Paul Phillips

hu, 02 Mar 2006 06:50:26 GM

pseudocertainty​ effect. - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. This is great to test at football games, especially if Michael Vick is involved. ...

pseudocertainty , karl rove, social security, and war

Daily Kos

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:01:54 GM

you'd normally expect people who are so frightened to be really risk-averse-- "conservative" in the true sense of the word. the ". pseudocertainty​ effect. " from psychology seems to explain a lot of this.

a collection of musts

Daniel Miessler

ue, 18 Nov 2008 05:17:35 GM

pseudocertainty​ effect. from wikipedia: scenario one an epidemic breaks out that's likely to kill 600 people if left untreated. treatment strategy a will save 200 people. treatment strategy b has 1/3 chance of saving 600 people and 2/3 ...

my biases

Joseph

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:01:29 GM

pseudocertainty​ effect. - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. reactance - the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do out ...

On the abhorrence of uncertainty

unknown

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:39:04 GM

Mere exposure effect the tendency for people to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. . Pseudocertainty​ effect. the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, ...

Show #8 - 12.17.2006

Derek Alfonso

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:00:00 GM

Pseudocertainty​ effect. - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. Selective perception - the tendency for expectations to affect perception. ...

possibility is not probability

Pete Lindstrom

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:32:48 GM

economists call this the certainty effect and it is related to prospect theory and the . pseudocertainty​ effect. . believing that vulnerability equals compromise completely ignores the notion of threat and the existence of probability. ...

Whoa! i didn't know abt this! this is so cool!

Ivy Ang

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:38:00 GM

Pseudocertainty​ effect. the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. * Reactance the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do ...

everything you know is wrong.

tellio

hu, 31 May 2007 02:25:54 GM

here's my fav: " # . pseudocertainty​ effect. - the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes." makes me feel like a skinner baby. ...

MP: Knowledge of cognitive biases needed to sustain competitive ...

Julien Le Nestour

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:04:37 GM

This leaves them vulnerable to a number of cognitive biases such as groupthink, the confirmation bias, overconfidence,​ . pseudocertainty​ effect. , etc. To counteract this, Bridgepoint's investment process has been designed to minimize their ...

Prospect Theory

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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:58:00 GM

The . pseudocertainty​ effect. is the observation that people may be risk-averse or risk-acceptant depending on the amounts involved and on whether the gamble relates to becoming better off or worse off. This is a possible explanation for ...

psychology

POUSE POULOSE

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:58:00 GM

protoself - proxemics - proximodistal axis - prudence - . pseudocertainty​ effect. - pseudocommunity​ - pseudologia - psikhushka - psilocybin - somatoform pain disorder - psyche - psychedelic - disability, psychiatric - disability, ...

We shall see.

X

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:58:00 GM

Thus, it is powered by clean and renewable energy; uses material inputs that have positive or benign . effects. on people and the environment; and employs manufacturing, distribution, and recovery systems that allow those material inputs ...

Chronic Fatigue or Chronic Laziness? | World of Psychology

Jennifer Bechdel

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:17:39 GM

These results showed the same . effect. on the CFS patients as it has on Neurally Medicated Hypotension patients. Rowe goes on to say he doesn't believe that Neurally Mediated Hypotension is the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, . ... We just need to back off from the '. pseudo-certaint​y. ' that we often display about causes and cures of subjective conditions. At the same time, we need to respect people who say that have various symptoms, and be willing to give them the benefit ...

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hu, 12 Mar 2009 03:33:15 GM

framing effect . pseudocertainty​ effect. . [8] ...

Craig Westover: COLUMN -- Science, certainly, but leave space for ...

Craig Westover

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:05:00 GM

by observing we . affect. what we observe in ways we can never know? In our quest for security have we cast off the . pseudo-certaint​y. of our ancestors' superstitions or merely traded up to a more sophisticated mythology? ...

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Adviser: Bhutto ...

Greg Sargent

hu, 27 Dec 2007 19:49:56 GM

Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, and he warned at the time it would divert us from Afghanistan and al Qaeda, and now we see the . effect. of that. Al Qaeda's resurgent, they're a powerful force now in Pakistan, they may have been . ... I find his claim to speculative to be persuasive. My only point is that you are offering just as much . pseudo-certaint​y. as he is; you are making a point which is equally unpersuasive, albeit in the opposite direction. ...