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Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Tests scope fit and sibling boundaries; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Topic Selection (jru-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a behavioral or decision result and are unsure JRU is the right home rather than a method-general or broad-behavioral venue
- The question is phrased as "people do X" but does not yet name a **risk or uncertainty primitive** (a utility curvature, a probability-weighting parameter, an ambiguity attitude, a VSL, an insurance elasticity)
- A coauthor wants to "add a risk angle" to a paper whose core object is really a market, a game, or a generic nudge
- The draft could plausibly go to JRU, Experimental Economics, JEBO, or Theory and Decision and the team needs the boundary drawn

## What JRU actually rewards

JRU's center of gravity is the **economics of decision-making under risk and uncertainty**: expected utility *and its descendants* (prospect theory, rank-dependent / cumulative prospect theory, ambiguity and Knightian uncertainty), the **measurement** of risk and ambiguity preferences, the **value of a statistical life** and other risk-money tradeoffs, and **insurance, precaution, and intertemporal risk**. A JRU paper's contribution is a sharper *representation*, a cleaner *measurement*, or a more credible *estimate* of one of these primitives — not merely a new domain where a known anomaly appears.

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