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Tempus Fugit: Time Pressure in Risky Decisions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We study the effects of time pressure on risky decisions for pure gain prospects, pure loss prospects, and mixed prospects involving both gains and losses.
Kocher, Martin G.   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Citizen Science Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Sensation seeking is an important underlying factor of both positive and negative forms of risk-taking during adolescence and early adulthood. However, macro-factors such as the global COVID-19 pandemic may influence sensation seeking opportunities and ...
Lysanne W. te Brinke   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influencing air force logisticians' information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of organizational meetings in an expanded PRISM framework [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Defense Analytics and Logistics, 2023
Purpose – This research aims to understand how organizational workplace meetings surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic impacted logistics Airmen across the United States Air Force and how these meetings impacted their risk seeking behavior on social media ...
Matthew D. Roberts   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Public's Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance in China During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Outbreak

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study uses the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM) to estimate the public's information seeking and avoidance intentions during the COVID-19 outbreak based on an online sample of 1031 Chinese adults and provides support for the ...
Mei Liu, You Chen, Dan Shi, Tingwu Yan
doaj   +1 more source

Decision-Making Optimization of Risk-Seeking Retailer Managed Inventory Model in a Water Supply Chain

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021
Water retailer managed inventory is a classical and inevitable inventory management mode in present economic society. Stochastic models can more clearly explain demand uncertainty and are closely related to water supply chains.
Wenfang Yu, Guisheng Hou, Baogui Xin
doaj   +1 more source

Prospect theory and body mass: Characterizing psychological parameters for weight-related risk attitudes and weight-gain aversion

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
We developed a novel decision-making paradigm that allows us to apply prospect theory in behavioral economics to body mass. 67 healthy young adults completed self-report measures and two decision-making tasks for weight-loss, as well as for monetary ...
Seung-Lark eLim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ambiguity aversion in rhesus macaques

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2010
People generally prefer risky options, which have fully specified outcome probabilities, to ambiguous options, which have unspecified probabilities.
Benjamin eHayden   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for exploration in the domain of losses

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2017
Many decisions in everyday life involve a choice between exploring options that are currently unknown and exploiting options that are already known to be rewarding.
Paul M. Krueger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

To punish first and reward second: Values determine how reward and punishment affect risk-taking behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The current study investigated whether manipulating participants’ pre-exposure to reward and punishment affects the extent to which sensation seeking and values predict risk-taking behavior.
Athota, V Sagar   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

A test taker’s gamble: The effect of average grade to date on guessing behaviour in a multiple choice test with a negative marking rule

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2019
Background: Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used as a preferred assessment tool, especially when testing large classes like most first-year Economics classes.
Aylit T. Romm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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