1. Quantum Structures in Human Decision-Making: Towards Quantum Expected Utility.
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Sozzo, Sandro
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EXPECTED utility , *DECISION making , *UTILITY theory , *PROBABILITY theory , *THOUGHT experiments - Abstract
Ellsberg thought experiments and empirical confirmation of Ellsberg preferences pose serious challenges to subjective expected utility theory (SEUT). We have recently elaborated a quantum-theoretic framework for human decisions under uncertainty which satisfactorily copes with the Ellsberg paradox and other puzzles of SEUT. We apply here the quantum-theoretic framework to the Ellsberg two-urn example, showing that the paradox can be explained by assuming a state change of the conceptual entity that is the object of the decision (decision-making, or DM, entity) and representing subjective probabilities by quantum probabilities. We also model the empirical data we collected in a DM test on human participants within the theoretic framework above. The obtained results are relevant, as they provide a line to model real life, e.g., financial and medical, decisions that show the same empirical patterns as the two-urn experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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