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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Risk compensation"”.
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Driving safety and safety engineering: exploring risk compensation
This study examined the parameters under which risk compensation in driving can occur due to the use of safety belts. Risk compensation theories hypothesize that if individuals wear safety belts, they will . drive in a more risky manner than if they do not wear safety belts due to the increased …
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Credit Risk Compensation: An Empirical Study of Investor Return and Agency Ratings
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An investigation of risk homeostasis in a laboratory environment
This study investigated whether risk compensation behavior would occur during a chemistry experiment due to the presence of protective equipment. This study also examined whether a homeostatic regulating mechanism exists for risk-taking behavior. Risk compensation and a homeostatic regulating …
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Worker's Behavioral Adaptation to Safety Interventions and Technologies: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations Through The Case of Simulated Residential Roofing Task
… side-effect of safety interventions, known as risk compensation. This dissertation aimed to provide empirical evidence and theoretical considerations of risk compensation effect in the construction industry. Accordingly, a multi-sensor immersive mixed-reality environment consists of a virtual …
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Community-based feedback to promote road safety
The theory of risk compensation predicts that when individuals increase the practice of a safe behavior, they will also increase the practice of an unsafe behavior in order to maintain the same level of overall risk. In contrast, response generalization predicts that an increase in safe behavior …
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An Essay on Cash Flows in Finance
I examine whether stock market anomalies reflect risk compensation or mispricing by analyzing their underlying cash-flow patterns. I distinguish between discrete anomalies based on information events (e.g., profitability) and continuous anomalies lacking such coordinating events (e.g., …
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Young Men's Perception of Male Circumcision at the University of Zambia in Lusaka: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention
… infection rates. There was an indication that risk compensation did actually exist among the circumcised students. However, the tendency not to use any protection like condoms during sexual intercourse was reported even among non-circumcised students and those who had multiple sexual partners, …
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The effect of blood alcohol concentration on performance in a game of risk involving industrial tasks and accidents
… study measured the effects of alcohol on risk-taking 511 a penalty/incentive system. Subjects read scenarios involving industrial tasks and accidents from a video screen. Each scenario had a point value associated with it. Subjects had to decide whether they were willing to perform the …
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Three essays in experimental and behavioral economics of technology adoption in India
… choice can be better understood by applying risk compensation theory. This theory implies that people act with greater care when the perceived risk of an activity is higher and with less care when it is lower. We examine how access to emergency contraceptives pills (ECPs) in India affected …
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Antiretroviral Treatment as Prevention in African HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities
… behavioral factors related to HIV-1 transmission risk in stable heterosexual HIV-1 serodiscordant African couples. ART is recommended for all HIV-1 infected persons, regardless of CD4 count, to reduce HIV-1 related morbidity, mortality and risk of transmission to uninfected partners. ART is a …
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Gladiator Gear: The unintended consequences of protective equipment in gridiron football compared to rugby union
… both enhance performance and reduce the injury risk. Protective equipment is particularly important in contact sports where injuries are frequent. In American and Canadian football, helmets and shoulder pads are two pieces of protective equipment that are strictly implemented to absorb hits of …