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Use when staking a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript's contribution against the expected-utility-and-alternatives literature. Positions the claim within risk/uncertainty scholarship; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Literature Positioning (jru-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The contribution is described as "new" but the relevant decision-theory or measurement literature is not engaged
- A referee is likely to say "this was settled by [the prospect-theory / ambiguity / VSL literature] decades ago"
- The paper sits between behavioral camps (EU loyalists vs. PT/RDU vs. ambiguity) and has not declared which conversation it joins
- Citations lean on textbooks and reviews rather than the primary representations the paper builds on

## The conversations JRU papers must locate themselves in

JRU readers hold a precise map of the field. Position the paper on it explicitly rather than against "the literature" generically:

- **Expected utility and its critiques** — vNM/Savage as the benchmark; the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes as the canonical anomalies a contribution must respect or explain.
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