Risk aversion
PREFERENCE AGAINST RISK, A COMMON HUMAN BEHAVIOR OF ATTEMPTING TO LOWER UNCERTAINTY AND AVOID RISK
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In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter is equal to or higher in monetary value than the more certain outcome. Risk aversion explains the inclination to agree to a situation with a more predictable, but possibly lower payoff, rather than another situation with a highly unpredictable, but possibly higher payoff.