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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Risk-taking (Psychology)"”.
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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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Does "Derring-Do" differ differentially? : an experiment with risky-shift, self-esteem, and the status of one's reference group
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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The impact of sexual assault on sexual risk-taking
1 PDF file (x, 139 pages)
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Risk-taking behavior in alcoholics
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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The motivational effect of need on decision-making under risk
Risk-sensitivity theory predicts that decision-makers shift from risk-aversion to riskpreference in situations where low-risk options are unlikely to meet their needs. Risksensitive theory is contrasted with more traditional unbounded models of decision-making predicting that decision-makers seek …
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Locus of control and risk behavior among college students
… or external) and their degree of engaging in risk behavior. Participants were male (N=8) and female (N=24) undergraduate college students from Rowan University. Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was used to assess the subject's attributions (internal vs. external) for the …
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Sexual risk among men who have sex with men with online sex partners in New York City: . . .
… investigating the relationship between sexual risk and MSM who meet sex partners on the Internet in either venue-based (offline) and Internet-based (online) settings have been mixed. In an effort to contribute to the knowledge base on this topic, this study analyzed data from two samples of MSM …
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The freshman experience
… research was to investigate if change in sexual risk-taking behavior between high school and college can be predicted as a function of the interaction of person and situation traits. College, conceptualized as a backspace (situation) construct, and personality traits (sensation-seeking, …
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The Impact of Risk Propensity on Corporate Entrepreneurship
… done in the fields of Entrepreneurship and Risk Taking. There is, however, very little literature regarding the relationship between Risk Taking and Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE). This study attempts to understand that relationship whilst exploring the impact of Risk Propensity on …
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Adolescents' self-disclosure and risk-taking online
1 PDF file (iv, 80 pages)
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Emotional intelligence as a protective factor for risk behavior in adolescence
1 PDF file (v, 78 pages)
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Rate changes In risky behavior & the role of sibling influence
… adolescent's likelihood of engaging in certain risky behaviors. For the purpose of this study these behaviors include things like drug use, sexual activity and violent or antisocial offenses. The initial study found a trend implicating that adolescents with older siblings more likely to engage …
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Examination of the Predictive Validity of Risk Assessment Screening
… have been under growing pressure to implement risk assessment systems over the past ten years (Dueck, H. J., English, D.J., Depanfilis, and Moote, G.T. (1993). This emphasis has come largely from the increasing number of reported allegations of child abuse and neglect (Doueck, et. al.) However, …
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Electrophysiological correlates of performance monitoring in middle and late adolescence
… and late- adolescence as well as its relation to risk-taking and empathic ability, two traits linked to dopaminergic and ACC activity. Utilizing a large sample of 15- and 18-year-old males, the present study examined the test-retest reliability of the ERN, age-related changes in the ERN and other …
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Linking community variables to parenting behaviours and youth risk behaviours
… monitoring, warmth, and knowledge) and to youth risk behavior (i.e., substance use and delinquency), measured both concurrently and one year after the assessment of parenting variables. The model builds on the work of Fletcher, Steinberg, and Williams-Wheeler (2004) but a) includes a more …
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Training of observers in risk rituals of the Manasa sect of Hinduism and serpent handling sects of Appalachia
… for injury or death, will be coined a religious risk ritual (RR). Observers will examine examples of video from the Manasa Hindu tradition in India and the Pentecostal and Holiness Serpent Handling traditions (SHS) of the southern Appalachian Mountain region of the United States. While training …
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The Adolescent Stress Response to a Naturalistic Driving Stressor
… proposed study examined the role of anxiety and risk-taking in driving performance in adolescents. In addition to examining the sample as a whole, gender differences were assessed given earlier reports from our laboratory and others indicating that males and females differ with respect to risky …
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