Do MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion?

• Published in: Economics letters Vol. 209; p. 110137
• Main Authors: Schwaiger, Rene, Hueber, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.12.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: assets; Between-subjects design; Mturk; Myopic loss aversion; Online experiment; Risk; Risk assessment; Risk aversion; Risk factors; risk profile; Myopic loss aversion; Mturk; G41; G11; G10; Risk; Online experiment

We present results from a highly powered online experiment with 937 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) that examined whether MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion (MLA). The experiment consisted of measuring MLA-compliant behavior in two between-subjects treatments that differed only reg...