[HTML][HTML] Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors

P Millroth, R Frey - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic it is important to identify factors that make people
particularly vulnerable of developing mental-health issues in order to provide case-specific …

Neural computations of threat

I Levy, D Schiller - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
A host of learning, memory, and decision-making processes form the individual's response
to threat and may be disrupted in anxiety and post-trauma psychopathology. Here we review …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in fear and risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Alsharawy, R Spoon, A Smith, S Ball - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many people to suffer from emotional distress. Previous
studies suggest that women process and express affective experiences, such as fear, with a …

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …

Risk preference: A view from psychology

R Mata, R Frey, D Richter, J Schupp… - Journal of Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Psychology offers conceptual and analytic tools that can advance the discussion on the
nature of risk preference and its measurement in the behavioral sciences. We discuss the …

Development and validation of the general risk propensity scale (GRiPS)

DC Zhang, S Highhouse, CD Nye - Journal of Behavioral …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the widespread interest in understanding and identifying risk takers by
psychologists, clinicians, and economists, the risk literature currently lacks consensus …

40 years of tax evasion games: a meta-analysis

J Alm, A Malézieux - Experimental Economics, 2021 - Springer
We collect individual participant data from 70 papers that use laboratory experiments to
examine individual tax evasion behavior (or “Tax Evasion Games”), in order to use meta …

[HTML][HTML] Individual differences in computational psychiatry: A review of current challenges

P Karvelis, MP Paulus, AO Diaconescu - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bringing precision to the understanding and treatment of mental disorders requires
instruments for studying clinically relevant individual differences. One promising approach is …

[HTML][HTML] Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory?

G Charness, T Garcia, T Offerman… - Journal of Risk and …, 2020 - Springer
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-
scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these …

Compulsivity and impulsivity traits linked to attenuated developmental frontostriatal myelination trajectories

G Ziegler, TU Hauser, M Moutoussis, ET Bullmore… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a period when ongoing brain development
coincides with a substantially increased risk of psychiatric disorders. The developmental …