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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Risk-taking propensity"”.
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A study of non-profit leaders' risk-taking propensity and managerial leadership styles
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Investigating a Link between Curiosity and Risk-Taking Propensity
… a connection with decision-making, specifically risky decision-making, perhaps with curiosity as a motivating force. In Experiment 1, college students were primed with curiosity, then participated in a lab-based behavioral measure of risk-taking, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, and answered …
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Identification and Validation of a Predicted Risk-Taking Propensity Model Among General Aviation Pilots
<p>Risk-taking, a persistent topic of interest and concern in aviation, has been linked with unsafe behaviors and accidents. However, risk-taking propensity is a complex construct that encompasses numerous factors still being researched. Even within the limited research available about the factors …
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Nature versus nurture: the influence of personal attributes and traits in determining an individual’s risk taking in trading
… (nurture variables) have on an individual's risk taking in trading. My research is motivated by studies in the psychology, economics and finance literature that posit these variables have an impact on an individual’s risk taking, albeit not specifically related to trading. My results show …
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Examining the Role of Physiological Arousal in Laboratory Risk-Taking in Social and Non-Social Contexts
Current theoretical models attribute the rise in risk-taking during adolescence to heightened activity in reward processing brain regions when in the presence of social and non-social rewarding stimuli. However, non-rewarding, but very salient stimuli, have also been shown to increase activity in …
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Towards precision medicine in psychiatry: investigating the contribution of cellular aging, pleiotropy and gender differences in psychiatric disorders and pharmacological response
… severe mental disorders and related traits (i.e. risk-taking propensity, telomere length and metabolic phenotypes). In the latter study we also focus on exploring gender differences in genetic determinants shared between mental disorders and metabolic phenotypes, highlighting the relevance 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 …