Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Stress often has a negative influence on sports performance. Stress-induced decreases in performance can be especially disastrous for risk sports athletes, who often put their life at risk when practicing their sport. Therefore, it is of great importance
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Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveThe study aims to explore how sensation seeking relates to college students sports lottery purchasing behavior, mediated by fear of missing out and moderated by perceived risk.MethodsA study surveyed 409 college students using various scales to ...
Kanglin Wang, Fen Qiu
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An association between prediction errors and risk-seeking: Theory and behavioral evidence. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2021 Moeller M, Grohn J, Manohar S, Bogacz R.
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Varied Definitions of Risk Related to Sensation Seeking Trait [PDF]
, 2000 [Excerpt] Risk judgments seem related to which definitions of risk a person uses. Earlier studies suggest that people who use a probability definition of risk give different, and somewhat lower, subjective estimates of risk than those who instead ...
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Reduced risk-seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Keupp S +4 more
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Tenders with Different Risk Preferences in Construction Industry [PDF]
Underlying the fact that different tenderers have different preferences on risk-taking, this study investigates the different tenderers' behaviors in one-shot construction bid auctions.
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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 ...
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The adaptive value of probability distortion and risk-seeking in macaques' decision-making. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Nioche A +5 more
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Help seeking in the New Zealand Defence Force using the Theory of Planned Behaviour : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 Mental health is of utmost importance in military settings due to the demanding and often dangerous nature of the work involved. However, military personnel are disproportionately deterred from seeking mental health help when the need arises.
Boyd, Egidia Dawn
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Understanding the Latent Structure of Dynamic Risk: Seeking Empirical Constraints on Theory Development Using the VRS-SO and the Theory of Dynamic Risk. [PDF]
Sex Abuse, 2022 Olver ME +2 more
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