How Cues of Being Watched Promote Risk Seeking in Fund Investment in Older Adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Social cues, such as being watched, can subtly alter fund investment choices. This study aimed to investigate how cues of being watched influence decision-making, attention allocation, and risk tendencies. Using decision scenarios adopted from the “Asian
Meijia Li, Huamao Peng, Huamao Peng
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Selfish risk-seeking can provide an evolutionary advantage in a conditional public goods game [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 While cooperation and risk aversion are considered to be evolutionarily advantageous in many circumstances, and selfish or risky behaviour can bring negative consequences for individuals and the community at large, selfish and risk-seeking behaviour is ...
Martina Testori +2 more
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RISK-SEEKING VERSUS RISK-AVOIDING INVESTMENTS IN NOISY PERIODIC ENVIRONMENTS [PDF]
International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2008 We study the performance of various agent strategies in an artificial investment scenario. Agents are equipped with a budget, x(t), and at each time step invest a particular fraction, q(t), of their budget. The return on investment (RoI), r(t), is characterized by a periodic function with different types and levels of noise.
J. Emeterio Navarro Barrientos +2 more
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Why are gainers more risk seeking [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 The phenomenon that prior gains may increase people's willingness to accept risky gambles is named as the "house money effect" (Thaler and Johnson, 1990).
Jiaxi Peng, Danmin Miao, Wei Xiao
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Impact of risk perception on emergency information seeking behavior: a meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPurposeRisk perception significantly impacts how individuals assess risk, make decisions, and behave. While numerous studies have examined risk perception's impact on emergency information seeking behavior, the nature of the association remains unclear ...
Wanlan Gong, Zhihong Li, Jun Tang
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Cognitive influences on risk-seeking by rhesus macaques [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2008 Humans and other animals are idiosyncratically sensitive to risk, either preferring or avoiding options having the same value but differing in uncertainty.
Benjamin Y. Hayden +3 more
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Risk-aversion and prudence in rent-seeking games [PDF]
Public Choice, 2009 This paper considers a common n-agent symmetric rent-seeking game. It derives conditions so that risk-aversion and risk always decrease rent-seeking efforts. These conditions hold for any regular contest success function when risk-averse rent-seekers are also prudent.
TREICH Nicolas
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Reward-seeking behaviors moderate the association between early life adversity and anhedonia 12 months later [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral NeuroscienceApproximately 20% of adolescents report experiencing anhedonia, conferring high risk for the onset of adolescent depression. Early life adversity (ELA) is associated with anhedonia, and individual differences in reward motivation may inform this ...
Mai-Lan Tran +6 more
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Effects of water safety knowledge on high-risk swimming behaviours among Chinese secondary school students: a moderated mediation model [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundThe dangers of drowning as a major global public health problem continue to receive international attention. Current literature lacks to describe the mechanism of action of water safety knowledge on high-risk behaviours in swimming.
Jiaxin Shi, Chao Xie, Hui Zhang
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The role of family environment and parental factors: a person-oriented study of adolescents’ psychological distress and help-seeking patterns [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthBackground Adolescents’ mental health is shaped by their coping strategies and the broader family context in which they live. However, few studies have examined psychological distress and help-seeking patterns jointly, especially from a person-oriented ...
Na Lyu +10 more
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