Giving mathematical psychology away: Challenges and promises

The four articles in this Special Issue on Practical Implications of Basic Research on Uncertainty and Utility were solicited in an attempt to meet two goals. The first goal was to get active researchers in this field to think about the lessons that recent theoretical and empirical advances in basic research on utility theory might hold for practitioners, i.e., for those who use utility theory to facilitate better decision making in a broad range of applications. The second goal was to make decision researchers more aware of unsolved problems that are important to practitioners.