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Peer effects in risk taking: Envy or conformity? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We examine two explanations for peer effects in risk taking: relative payoff concerns and preferences that depend on peer choices. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice or the lottery ...
Lahno, AM, Serra-Garcia, M
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Risk governance as a line of defense: Systematic review of hotspots for future research

open access: yesCogent Business & Management, 2023
To forestall future financial crises, risk governance has been embraced as a line of defense. Therefore, this paper seeks to synthesize the risk governance literature, identifying gaps, and suggesting direction for future research, through a systematic ...
John Agyekum Addae   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Risks and Perceptions in Everyday Organisational Cybersecurity

open access: yesAustralasian Journal of Information Systems
Employee compliance is crucial for effective cybersecurity, yet the underlying psychological drivers of risky behaviours remain complex. Deliberate cybersecurity risks can arise through active behaviours (actions) or passive behaviours (inaction ...
Sunitha Prabhu
doaj   +1 more source

Catastrophizing and Risk-Taking

open access: yesComputational Psychiatry, 2023
Background: Catastrophizing, when an individual overestimates the probability of a severe negative outcome, is related to various aspects of mental ill-health.
Alexandra C. Pike   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Reality as a New Approach for Risk Taking Assessment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Understanding how people behave when facing hazardous situations, how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence the risk taking (RT) decision making process and to what extent it is possible to modify their reactions externally, are questions that have ...
Carla de-Juan-Ripoll   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monetary policy and risk taking : [draft january 2013] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We assess the effects of monetary policy on bank risk to verify the existence of a risk-taking channel - monetary expansions inducing banks to assume more risk. We first present VAR evidence confirming that this channel exists and tends to concentrate on
Angeloni, Ignazio   +2 more
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Reconceptualising undergraduate entrepreneurship education at traditional South African universities

open access: yesActa Commercii, 2019
Orientation: The relatively high number of unemployed graduates in South Africa is a major cause for concern. Entrepreneurial start-ups have been heralded as the panacea to the unemployment challenge.
Manduth Ramchander
doaj   +1 more source

Risk taking in Extreme Sports: A phenomenological perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Participation in extreme sports is enjoying incredible growth while more traditional recreational activities such as golf are struggling to maintain numbers.
Brymer, Eric
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Investigating Neuroticism, Aggression, and Risk Taking as Predictors of Accident-Proneness in Line Employees of National Iranian Drilling Company

open access: yesبهداشت کار و ارتقای سلامت, 2022
Introduction: The present study aims to examine neuroticism, aggression, and risk taking as predictors of accident-proneness in line employees of National Iranian Drilling Company.
Ali MOZAFFAR   +2 more
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Risk Taking and Force Protection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper addresses two questions about the morality of warfare: (1) how much risk must soldiers take to minimize unintended civilian casualties caused by their own actions (“collateral damage”), and (2) whether it is the same for the enemy\u27s ...
Luban, David
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