CONTINGENT APPLICATION OF THE CANCELLATION EDITING OPERATION: THE ROLE OF THE SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS BETWEEN RISK OUTCOMES

摘要: The cancellation editing operation requires that choice not be affected by the characteristics shared by the options. The aim of this work was to verify the dependence of cancellation, and then of choice, on the semantic relatedness between the outcomes of a risky prospect. The results confirm the use of cancellation in the absence, but not in the presence, of semantic relatedness between the outcome the prospect shares with the other prospect and the outcome the prospect doesn’t share with the other prospect. In the presence of semantic relatedness between the shared and not-shared outcomes, in keeping with the integration of the probabilities, a minor appreciation of the offered risk reduction is observed.