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SUBMITTER: Hayden BY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811154 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayden Benjamin Y BY Platt Michael L ML
Judgment and decision making 20090601 4
The St. Petersburg Paradox is a famous economic and philosophical puzzle that has generated numerous conflicting explanations. To shed empirical light on this phenomenon, we examined subjects' bids for one St. Petersburg gamble with a real monetary payment. We found that bids were typically lower than twice the smallest payoff, and thus much lower than is generally supposed. We also examined bids offered for several hypothetical variants of the St. Petersburg Paradox. We found that bids were wea ...[more]