Risk-taking, by definition, defies logic. Reason can't explain why people do unpredictable things——like betting on blackjack or jumping out of planes——for little or, sometimes, no reward at all. There's the thrill, of course, but those brief moments of ecstasy aren't enough to keep ...
In exploring the question of what can be learned about the psychology of thinking from concepts drawn from the study of risk taking, the authors (1) investigate risk taking as it operates within a motivational context, (2) study the meaning of generality and specificity in risk-taking behavior...
the accessibility of resources, the ability of teenagers to effectively utilize services within their current developmental phase, risk-taking behavior of teenagers and challenges faced in the system and in general.Analysis took the form of meaning categorization, as responses were clustered into specific...
Social meaning plays a large role in increasing or decreasing adolescent risk-taking. For purposes of policy, one implication is that "meaning entrepreneurs," in the private and public sectors, should be able to move behavior in better directions....
However, adolescent chimpanzees weren’t happy about waiting for the extra banana slices and they showed greater anger during the one-minute delay than adult chimpanzees. “Risk-taking behavior in both adolescent chimpanzees and humans appears to be biologically rooted, but increases in impulsive behav...
Gillers, a law professor, used this simile to discuss the expose of people in the financial world who had been taking the risk out of arbitrage by dealing on specially garnered or insider information. Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
We examine the role of consultation and group decision making on risk-taking. • We replicate previous experiments showing higher risk-taking in groups relative to isolated individuals. • We find peer effects in consultative groups: the decisions of individuals who consult with one another are ...
For the regression analyses, a 2-sided P value less than .005 was considered statistically significant, taking into account the multitude of comparisons made and the magnitude of associations.34 Sensitivity analyses were also performed using linear mixed-effects models to assess the effect of ...
The first framed the question in terms of several collision scenarios (e.g., head-on collisions, collision with a pedestrian, collision with another vehicle at a junction, etc.) the other more generally in terms of the risk of interacting with the road system when taking different road user...
Behavioral control and reward sensitivity in adolescents’ risk taking behavior: a longitudinal TRAILS study. Front Psychol. 2017;8:231. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Meyer HC, Bucci DJ. Imbalanced activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens impairs behavioral inhibition....