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In a seminal 1979 study, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky presented students and college faculty from Israel, Sweden, and the United States with hypothetical questions involving financial decisions. Finding that participants' responses indicated that losses have a greater psychological impact than equivalent gains do, the researchers formulated the concept of loss aversion, which has since informed research in fields ranging from marketing to law.
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Dana Zeif and Eldad Yechiam conducted an experiment in which study participants from five countries were exposed to financial choices that involved potential losses of either relatively minor sums of money, such as 20 US dollars (low-stakes contexts), or more substantial sums, such as 100 US dollars (high-stakes contexts). The researchers concluded that only the latter contexts were associated with loss aversion.
In a seminal 1979 study, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky presented students and college faculty from Israel, Sweden, and the United States with hypothetical questions involving financial decisions. Finding that participants' responses indicated that losses have a greater psychological impact than equivalent gains do, the researchers formulated the concept of loss aversion, which has since informed research in fields ranging from marketing to law.
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Dana Zeif and Eldad Yechiam conducted an experiment in which study participants from five countries were exposed to financial choices that involved potential losses of either relatively minor sums of money, such as 20 US dollars (low-stakes contexts), or more substantial sums, such as 100 US dollars (high-stakes contexts). The researchers concluded that only the latter contexts were associated with loss aversion.