Prospect Theory as Efficient Perceptual Distortion
提出高效感知扭曲理论，认为主观感知与客观状态的统计关系在信息处理容量约束下最小化估计误差，该理论解释了视觉感知的局限，并应用于经济选择，推导出前景理论中的参考点依赖估值及风险偏好模式。
The paper proposes a theory of efficient perceptual distortions, in which the statistical relation between subjective perceptions and the objective state minimizes the error of the state estimate, subject to a constraint on information processing capacity. The theory is shown to account for observed limits to the accuracy of visual perception, and then postulated to apply to perception of options in economic choice situations as well. When applied to choice between lotteries, it implies reference-dependent valuations, and predicts both risk-aversion with respect to gains and risk-seeking with respect to losses, as in the prospect theory of Kahneman and Tversky (1979).