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Prospect theory and risk aversion

Prospect theory and risk aversion

This graph represents Kahneman and Tversky's theory. The distance between the x-axis and the curve is smaller in the positive direction (i.e., for positive outcomes, or gains) than it is in the negative direction (i.e., for negative outcomes, or losses). This means that people's positive value of gains is less than people's negative value of losses. In other words, people are more sensitive to possible risk than to possible gain.

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