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Abstract: this paper is that cognition plays a hidden but essential role in seemingly riskless situations whenever it is clear that the individual's choice determinants have changed in a way that was unpredictable. A careful scrutiny of the formulation of two characteristic problems may best convey the intuition of the argument. The first question was asked by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) : (Update)

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@misc{ theory-unsystematic,
  author = "Rational Choice Theory",
  title = ". Unsystematic change and the assumption of given and known possibilities
    and preferences",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/353246.html" }
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