Why are humans risk-averse?

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 12:56 in Psychology & Sociology

After my first foray into computational simulations successfully predicted that losses should loom larger than gains, at least when the stakes are high, I decided to take on an even more complicated phenomenon in psychology and economics: risk aversion. read more

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