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Showing 1 to 20 of 516 for “"Risk-Taking"”.
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Positive Risk Taking in Adolescence
… evince a more heightened propensity for risk taking than children and adults. This propensity can be directed toward negative (e.g., illegal or health-compromising) or positive (e.g., socially acceptable and beneficial) risk behaviors. Much existing research on adolescent risk behavior …
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Risk taking in bipolar disorder
… on computerised tasks designed to measure risk decision making. There is tentative evidence for altered decision making processes even during euthymic and remitted phases of bipolar disorder, but little difference in overall decision making outcomes.Limitations: The evidence base is small …
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Risk-Taking, Decision Strategy and Personality
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114812.pdf: 4761700 bytes, checksum: 7a17b392091ad35b2d7fb0a29f6ed1b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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The Effect of Risk Taking Disposition, Presence of Others, and Cooperation and Competition on Risk Taking and Performance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:07:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013458.pdf: 4468971 bytes, checksum: 22a8424c0ed5f1a66fe134e74dcb5e4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Risk taking behaviour in bipolar affective disorder
… research was designed to explore the nature of risk taking behaviour and impulsivity in bipolar affective disorder. Involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential, or risk, for unwanted consequences forms one of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria for (hypo)mania; however, little …
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The psychology of physical risk taking behaviour
This study investigates the psychology of risk taking, and in particular the personality profiles associated with different physical risk taking behaviours. It was hypothesised that there may be three fundamental approaches to risk: 'Risk avoiders' avoid activities they perceive to contain risk, …
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Adolescents' self-disclosure and risk-taking online
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Risk-taking behavior of schizophrenics and normals
… also be supported by decision theory type chance taking measures; and (2) to examine the kinds of risks toward which schizophrenics were most sensitive. Two theoretical models, decision theory and level of aspiration theory, dealing with decision making in situations involving the threat of …
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Exploring Contemporary Risk-Taking in Canadian Adolescents
This thesis explored contemporary risk-taking within the Canadian adolescent population. It involved two quantitative studies and one qualitative study. Quantitatively, it involved a psychometric analysis to develop and validate new adolescent risk-taking scales focused on engagement in …
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Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance on CEO risk taking. Furthermore, the strong governance mitigates excess …
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Ages of Engagement in Risk Taking and Self-Harm: An Investigation of the Dual Systems Model of Adolescent Risk Taking
<p>Risk taking (RT) and self-harm (SH) are clinically, conceptually, and empirically<br />related, yet separate constructs, which occur most frequently during adolescence. The current study utilized retrospective reports of college students to determine reported ages of engagement in RT and SH …
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Personality And Risk-Taking Behaviors In Emerging Adulthood
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>PERSONALITY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS IN EMERGING ADULTHOOD</p> <p>by</p> <p> </p> <p>AGNES WARD</p> <p> </p> <p>December 2010</p> <p> </p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Stephen B. Hillman</p> <p> </p> <p>Major: Educational Psychology </p> <p> </p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy </p> <p> </p> …
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Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children
… regret, this thesis also investigated prosocial risk taking (PSRT). PSRT was defined as taking a risk with the primary intention of benefitting a person other than oneself. Importantly, PSRT required a potential cost to one’s own outcomes, making it more likely that the intentions underlying such …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Risk-taking, and Protective Factors
… interest in trauma literature is increased risk-taking behavior. I designed the current study to investigate the possible relationship between ACEs and risk-taking in children in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study funded by the NIH. Additionally, I explored the role of …
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Effects of credit rating change on risk-taking
… thesis investigates whether there are changes in risk-taking behavior following an upgrade or downgrade in credit ratings. Research on effects of rating changes on capital markets is well-documented but the literature on how rating changes may affect firm behavior is sparse. Following, a downgrade …
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Managerial risk-taking incentives and state economic growth
… this paper examines whether aggregate executive risk-taking incentives are related to future state economic growth. I find evidence that an increase in state-level aggregate risk-taking incentives is predictably associated with a lower future state economic growth, after controlling for the …
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