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Many researchers have proposed improved methods and made great progress in weight determination, but the existing studies still have shortcomings in considering the psychological behavior of decision makers (DMs) and there is still relatively little research on cross-efficiency in fuzzy environments. In this paper, we proposed a method to apply CRITIC to determine weights and introduce both prospect theory and regret theory into the evaluation method of cross-efficiency to obtain the prospect cross-efficiency matrix and regret cross-efficiency matrix respectively, and then applied the Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy operator to aggregate them to achieve the ranking of DMUs through the fraction function. This largely takes into account the subjective preference and regret avoidance psychology of DMs. The applicability of this paper\u2019s method is also verified through an example of shopping for a new energy vehicle. Finally, the effectiveness of this paper\u2019s method is verified by comparing three traditional methods with this paper\u2019s method, which provides an effective method for considering risk preferences in the decision-making process.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jifs-231371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,21]],"date-time":"2023-07-21T11:18:52Z","timestamp":1689938332000},"page":"6035-6045","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Fuzzy cross-efficiency evaluation based on prospect theory and regret theory"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"45","author":[{"given":"Jianping","family":"Fan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China"}]},{"given":"Ge","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China"}]},{"given":"Meiqin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of 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