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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"risk-seeking"”.
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A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Trait Impulsivity, Cognitive Flexibility, and Risk-Seeking: Associations with Co-Occurring Alcohol Use and Social Anxiety in Young Adulthood
… in the understanding of potential developmental risk factors associated with the onset and maintenance of these co-occurring symptoms. The current study investigated trait impulsivity, cognitive flexibility, and risk-seeking during adolescence and associations with alcohol use and social anxiety …
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Age and Loss Aversion: Impact on PGA Tour Professionals
… In the study, I find these players exhibit risk-seeking behavior in losses and risk-averse behavior in gains. However, age did not significantly affect players' risk-seeking or risk aversion behaviors.
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Pharmacological and Genetic Effects of Serotonin on Value-Based Decision-Making
… was restricted to a genetic association with risk-seeking for losses behaviour that could no be corroborated by differences in tonic serotonin levels or white matter microstructure.
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Stock Option Returns, a Puzzle
… is presented that is consistent with investor risk-seeking contributing to the puzzling call returns.
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The role of emotion in decision making when information is framed positively and negatively
… positively (i.e. in terms of gains), people make risk-averse choices, whereas when information is framed negatively (i.e. in terms of losses), people make risk-seeking choices. Information framing is one of the most studied cognitive biases and its effects have been observed in decision problems …
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The Advantage of Numeric Uncertainty Information For Decision-Making With Two Thresholds
… condition showed greater proportion of risk-seeking errors than risk-averse errors, whereas the tendency was reversed in three-option condition. The study suggests that numeric uncertainty information can be beneficial in complex situation.
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
<p>The relationship between testosterone and risk aversion is of increasing interest in the experimental economics. Using the ratio of the second digit to the fourth digit (2D:4D) as a rough indicator of level of prenatal testosterone exposure, this study attempts to replicate recent results from …
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The perks of being bold: Overconfidence predicts persistence
… The results showed that narcissism, risk seeking, and pride predicted higher levels of overconfidence, though some variation existed across tasks. These results suggest that overconfidence is associated with positive gains like persistence, which is in turn associated with success and …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
… research design creates a framework in which the risk preferences and Islamic religiosity of Jordanian borrowers can be estimated. Specifically, this study highlights the different characteristics of conventional and Islamic microfinance borrowers. Although there is extensive literature on the …
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Foreign institutional investment in Latin American real estate
… in both depth and sophistication as first risk-seeking frontier investors and then larger Institutional Investors entered the market. Today, open economies, increased market transparency and liquidity, sophisticated local partners, the availability of debt financing from both local and …
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Why Risk It? The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Microfinance Loan Default
… reveal any</p> <p>difference in their level of risk preference and time preference. This is tested</p> <p>through an artefactual field experiment with 97 borrowers from the National</p> <p>Microfinance Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In the experiment,</p> <p>participants chose between …
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The choice-theoretic characterizations of risk changes and risk attitudes in cumulative prospect theory : a stochastic dominance approach
… an effective tool to characterize individuals’ risk attitudes in decision making under risk by comparing risky prospects. The emergence of the cumulative prospect theory (CPT), developed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and Tversky and Kahneman (1992), provides a prominent alternative to the …
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Going to extremes : an investigation into consumers' excessive behaviours
… suggest that time pressure can promote either risk-aversion or risk-seeking. In the present research, we explain this inconsistency by drawing on an egocentric bias framework. Specifically, we focus on two characteristics of risky decisions. First, since individuals tend to be more …
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The Arousing Risk: Influences of positive and negative arousal on preferences for economic risk
… economic models explain decision making under risk as a utility maximization process. Developments in cognitive psychology and neuroeconomics showed the volatility of such conceptualization highlighting human bounded rationality and discussing the role of decision maker’s affective state (basic …
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A new swarm optimal collective searching behaviour framework using decision-making under risk
… used in these models are rational and risk avert and they perform poorlywhere risk is associated with the environment.In this research, we will use the particle swarm metaphor as a model for the humansocial group strategic adaptation for collective searching in a risky environment. …
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The relationship between risk attitude and advertising creativity
This research examines the relationship between risk and creativity in advertising, so that practitioners and academics can achieve further and deeper insight into the factors and situations that enhance or detract &om advertising creativity. It begins with an assessment of the literature on risk …
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Essays on behavioural and organizational economics
… in the leader appointment process, self-group risk preferences of elected leaders and performance feedback mechanisms. In Chapter 1, I investigate discrimination against women in election settings and whether group dynamics undermine women’s chances to become leaders. I conduct a voting …
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Modeling and analysis of affective influences on human experience, prediction, decision making, and behavior
… a new model combining measures to evaluate risk preferences: behavioral choices, selfreported experience self-reported experience, self-reported predicted utility, self-reported confidence. The analysis results show how domain uncertainty, framing, and emotion state of decision makers …
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An experimental analysis of the risk-trust confound
… However, many researchers have argued that risk attitudes may confound the measurement of trust because trusting decisions involve outcomes that have only some probability of occurring. This study therefore seeks to question whether risk attitudes predict trusting decisions in the Berg, …
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Adversarial risk analysis for first-price sealed-bid auctions
… introduced an approach, called adversarial risk analysis (ARA) that provides an optimal solution for one of the intervening agents, based on a decision making problem in hand and treating the intelligent adversaries' decisions as uncertainties. ARA solutions for FPSB auctions have previously …
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