Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler
Li first author, not Feldman. A registered-report replication of the seventeen problems reviewed by Thaler in 1999, run with an online American sample of about 500 participants per problem and 1,007 overall, found empirical support for eleven, mixed support for three and none for three. The house money problem failed and reversed: where the original reported 70 per cent taking the bet after a prior gain, 28 per cent did here. The break-even problem failed likewise.
Li first author, not Feldman. A registered-report replication of the seventeen problems reviewed by Thaler in 1999, run with an online American sample of about 500 participants per problem and 1,007 overall, found empirical support for eleven, mixed support for three and none for three. The house money problem failed and reversed: where the original reported 70 per cent taking the bet after a prior gain, 28 per cent did here. The break-even problem failed likewise.
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(1999).' Royal Society Open Science, 12(9). PMCID PMC12445221, PMID 40977913. Endorsed by Peer Community in Registered Reports, doi:10.24072/pci.rr.100375.