Risk Attitudes Prospect theory predicts concave risk attitudes in domain of gains (i.e., risk aversion) and convex risk attitudes in domain of losses (i.e., risk seeking).
Example:
($100, 100%) vs. ($200, 50%)
.72 .28
(-$100, 100%) vs. (-$200, 50%)
.36 .64
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