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AbstractThis paper considers two criteria for comparative statics of uncertainty attitude in a decision maker (DM), whose preference relation is represented by the rank-dependent subjective expected utility (RDSEU) (Nakada and Ozaki, 2025). We characterize the difference between the uncertainty attitudes of two DMs in terms of the shape of the distortion function.

This paper scrutinizes the roles played by both subjective and objective probabilities in the representation of preferences under uncertainty. On the one hand, the subjective probability appears in the Choquet expected utility (CEU) preference in which the capacity can be decomposed into a unique probability and a unique strictly increasing distortion function. We call this preference the rank-dependent subjective expected utility (RDSEU). On the other hand, the objective probabilities appear in the domain of the preference consisting of the lottery acts (or the AA-acts). Given these two kinds of probabilities, this paper achieves two objectives. First, we axiomatize the RDSEU with the domain given by the AA-acts by invoking Dana (Scott, 1964) decomposition theorem. Second, supposing that the domains of all the relevant preferences are the AA-acts, we prove that if the preference is represented by the CEU, then it is probabilistically sophisticated (PS) if and only if it is the subjective expected utility (SEU), which implies that, within the class of the CEU preferences, the SEU is the only class of the PS preferences. This shows that if the axioms are imposed over the entire AA-acts, a fairly severe restriction must be assumed on the form of preference representation.