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Loss aversion

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Read about Loss aversion in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — the primary source in the Read Stacks library.

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Kahneman presents prospect theory, the work with Amos Tversky that earned the Nobel Prize and supplied the reference point Bernoulli's model lacked.

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