Miscellaneous Risk Tasks

Many researchers develop their own tasks to assess risk preferences. These may be gambles, lotteries, or vignettes. We list a handful of examples below.

Dahlbäck, O. (1990). Personality and risk-taking. Personality and Individual Differences, 11(12), 1235-1242.doi:10.1016/0191-8869(90)90150-P Uses hypothetical choice dilemmas, gambles, & roulette problems.

Holt, C. A., & Laury, S. K. (2002). Risk aversion and incentive effects. The American Economic Review, 92(5), 1644-1655.doi:10.1257/000282802762024700 Uses paired lotteries.

McDougal, Y. B. (1995). Decision-making under risk: Risk preference, monetary goals and information search. Personality and Individual Differences, 18(6), 771-782.doi:10.1016/0191-8869(94)00207-9 Uses gambles.

Seta, J. J., McElroy, T., & Seta, C. E. (2001). To do or not to do: Desirability and consistency mediate judgments of regret. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(6), 861-870.doi:10.1037//0022-3514.80.6.861 Uses vignettes and hypothetical choices.

Tanaka, T., Camerer, C. F., & Nguyen, Q. (2006). Poverty, politics, and preferences: Field Experiments and survey data from Vietnam. UCLA Department of Economics Working Paper. Uses paired lotteries.

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