Why are Women More Religious than Men? Do Risk Preferences and Genetic Risk Predispositions Explain the Gender Gap? [PDF]
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2020 Risk preference theory argues that the gender gap in religiosity is caused by greater female risk aversion. Although widely debated, risk preference theory has been inadequately tested. Our study tests the theory directly with phenotypic and genetic risk
Yi Li, Guang Guo
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Cognitive abilities affect decision errors but not risk preferences: A meta-analysis. [PDF]
Psychon Bull Rev, 2022 When making risky decisions, people should evaluate the consequences and the chances of the outcome occurring. We examine the risk-preference hypothesis, which states that people’s cognitive abilities affect their evaluation of choice options and ...
Mechera-Ostrovsky T +3 more
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Stability of Risk Preferences During COVID-19: Evidence From Four Measurements [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This article studies the stability of risk-preference during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results differ between risk-preference measurements and also men and women.
Peilu Zhang, Marco A. Palma
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Is environmental behavior related to economic risk preferences? An exploratory case by case analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Do risk preferences play a role when deciding whether to act pro-environmentally? Looking at 28 different behaviors case by case – including recycling, waste reduction, energy and water conservation, consumer behavior, and environmental policy support ...
Stepan Vesely, Christian A. Klöckner
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Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences
The Economic Journal, 2022 We present incentivized panel data measuring risk preferences of subsistence farmers from across Ethiopia, and pair them with rainfall data. We use these data to test the hypothesis that risk preferences may adapt to the environment of the decision ...
S. Di Falco, Ferdinand M. Vieider
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Using dynamic monitoring of choices to predict and understand risk preferences. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Choices that consist of risky versus certain options are pervasive and consequential, leading many researchers to investigate when and which individuals select risk over certainty.
Stillman PE, Krajbich I, Ferguson MJ.
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Neural Differences in Relation to Risk Preferences during Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potential Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Inter-individual variability in risk preferences can be reflected in reward processing differences, making people risk-seekers or risk-averse. However, the neural correlates of reward processing in individuals with risk preferences remain unknown ...
Sedigheh Naghel +3 more
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Incorporating risk preferences of patients in the valuation of immune checkpoint inhibitors for non-small cell lung cancer [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 Immunotherapy offers a distinctive mechanism of action compared to traditional treatments, arising from additional value dimensions that may not be captured in standard health technology assessments.
Remziye Zaim +2 more
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Financial behavior, confidence, risk preferences and financial literacy of university students
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2018 This study investigates determinants of financial behavior (FB) of university students at a university in South Africa. It examines whether financial behavior, confidence, time preferences, risk preferences and financial literacy perceptions of ...
Calvin Mudzingiri +2 more
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Risk Preferences, Time Preferences, and Smoking Behavior
Southern Economic Journal, 2018 There is a rich theoretical literature in economics which models habit‐forming behaviors, of which addiction is the exemplar, but there is a paucity of experimental economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences that economic theory suggests ...
Glenn W. Harrison +3 more
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