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Risk Seeking or Risk Aversion? Phenomenology and Perception

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
We relax assumptions on individual risk preference, and set two theoretical rules for portfolio choices: either minimize or maximize risk, for any return. Risk is modeled by four alternative formulas. We empirically test these rules by observing N=690 individuals (Caucasians, bank customers and financial professionals, aged 18-88), while making risky ...
Caterina Lucarelli, Mario Maggi, Pierpaolo Uberti   +2 more
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Alcohol and Risk/Sensation Seeking:

Journal of Addictive Diseases, 1993
The authors examine the driving patterns of those at high-risk of drinking-driving. A specially designed questionnaire collected data from 878 respondents in alcohol treatment and criminal justice facilities. The LISREL program is used to analyze the causal structure underlying driving behaviors and various alcohol-and nonalcohol-related factors ...
J, Yu, W R, Williford
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Risk communication for patients seeking IVF

Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2007
Treatment for infertility is like other healthcare during which patients consider using new technologies and make risk–benefit tradeoffs owing to possible adverse effects. Consumer-oriented educational materials have been developed regarding IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection to help patients to make these decisions.
Linda M Frazier, David A Grainger, Bruce L Tjaden   +2 more
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PRISM: A Planned Risk Information Seeking Model

Health Communication, 2010
Recent attention on health-related information seeking has focused primarily on information seeking within specific health and health risk contexts. This study attempts to shift some of that focus to individual-level variables that may impact health risk information seeking across contexts. To locate these variables, the researcher posits an integrated
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Extreme risk seeking

2009
In this paper, the author is hypothesising that Extreme Risk Seeking (ERS) – i.e. deliberately and continually seeking dangerous events able to arouse strong emotions – can become a pathological behavioural addiction. The article suggests an interpretative model of ERS and confronts it with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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Risk-Seeking Governance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Brian J. Broughman, Matthew Wansley
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Sensation Seeking and Risk Taking

1979
Zuckerman has pursued the conceptualization and measurement of sensation seeking with such success that it is beginning to take its place alongside such long-established concepts as introversion and extraversion. Zuckerman conceives sensation seeking as a motive that can be measured as both trait and state.
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Risk Seeking and Lottery Design

1993
In the previous two chapters, it has been shown that the majority of the EU analysis of choice under uncertainty may be carried over to the RDEU framework. It has also been shown that some results, notably those concerning second order risk aversion and those relying on the equivalence between risk aversion and second stochastic dominance, may not hold
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Risk seeking or risk aversion?

2023
Christine D. Roland-Lévy, Jérémy E. Lemoine, Imen Zaghouani, Frédéric Deschamps   +3 more
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Seeking of Risk via Bivariate Risk-Seeking Stochastic Dominance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Jingyuan Li, Jianli Wang
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