The prospect of a perfect ending: Loss aversion and the round-number bias

Studies across a range of domains have shown that individuals tend to focus on round numbers as cognitive reference points; a so-called left-digit effect. We explain this effect by combining analog numerical heuristics with prospect theory in order to develop an analog value function that predicts t...

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Main Authors: Fraser-Mackenzie, Peter (Author), Sung, Ming-Chien (Author), Johnson, Johnnie (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015-11.
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