An Experimental Test of Loss Aversion
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The evidence for gender differences in loss aversion is inconsistent.
“Consistent with this analysis, although women are generally found to be more risk-averse than men -perhaps because evolutionary pressures require the higher investing sex to be more cautious, since the costs of a poor mating decision are typically greater for women than for men (Buss, 1997) -the evidence for gender differences in loss aversion is inconsistent (Andersson et al., 2016; Chapman et al”
From Talking the talk, not walking the walk: The coevolution of overconfidence and loss aversion (2026) · cites this paper as Schmidt & Traub, 2002
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“This is a typical irrational behavior that can be partially explained by the ‘‘loss aversion’’ phenomenon and the ‘‘reflection effect’’ in prospect theory [18, 28–32].”
Talking the talk, not walking the walk: The coevolution of overconfidence and loss aversion
Dawson, C., & de Meza, D. (2026) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/rev0000644 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Schmidt, U., & Traub, S.
- Affiliations
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Traub, Stefan
- Venue
- Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
- Published
- 2002-11
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 233-249
- ISSN
- 0895-5646 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0476
- OpenAlex
- W1575438854
- Cited by
- 233
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 3.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Keywords
- loss aversion, cumulative prospect theory, risk preferences, gender differences
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