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.
Brooks C. +15 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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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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Identifying subgroups of college students at risk of suicide: the impact of Andersen’s model on help-seeking intentions and the role of others’ positive help-seeking experiences [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground This study examines mental health services among college students at risk of suicide within Chinese collectivist culture, focusing on the subgroup heterogeneity of help-seeking willingness as outlined by Andersen’s model.
Yun Yun +6 more
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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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The potential relationship between spicy taste and risk seeking [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2016 We conducted three studies to examine the relationship between spicy tastes and risk seeking. In Study 1, results from a personality judgment task indicated that people were more inclined to attribute a higher level of risk seeking to individuals who ...
Xue Wang +3 more
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Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model [PDF]
, 2015 Dunwoody, Sharon, Griffin, Robert J.
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