Decision-making under risk: Integrating perspectives from biology, economics, and psychology

S Mishra - Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Decision-making under risk has been variably characterized and examined in many different
disciplines. However, interdisciplinary integration has not been forthcoming. Classic theories …

The relative state model: Integrating need-based and ability-based pathways to risk-taking

S Mishra, P Barclay, A Sparks - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Who takes risks, and why? Does risk-taking in one context predict risk-taking in other
contexts? We seek to address these questions by considering two non-independent …

Experimenting with measurement error: Techniques with applications to the caltech cohort study

B Gillen, E Snowberg, L Yariv - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Measurement error is ubiquitous in experimental work. It leads to imperfect statistical
controls, attenuated estimated effects of elicited behaviors, and biased correlations between …

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 …

[图书][B] Evolutionary psychopathology: A unified approach

M Del Giudice - 2018 - books.google.com
Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

Life history variables and risk-taking propensity

XT Wang, DJ Kruger, A Wilke - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
We examined the effects of life-history variables on risk-taking propensity, measured by
subjective likelihoods of engaging in risky behaviors in five evolutionarily valid domains of …

Disgust as a mechanism for decision making under risk: Illuminating sex differences and individual risk-taking correlates of disgust propensity.

AM Sparks, DMT Fessler, KQ Chan, A Ashokkumar… - Emotion, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The emotion disgust motivates costly behavioral strategies that mitigate against potentially
larger costs associated with pathogens, sexual behavior, and moral transgressions …

Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation

S Highhouse, Y Wang, DC Zhang - Journal of Research in Personality, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Meta-analysis of 6,644 correlations from 133 independent samples (N= 69,125)
was conducted to examine whether risk propensity is subsumed by or independent of the …

Male risk-taking as a context-sensitive signaling device

MD Baker Jr, JK Maner - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
Evolutionary theorists have suggested that sex differences in risk-taking are due ultimately to
greater intrasexual competition among men (compared with women) over access to mating …

Competitive disadvantage facilitates risk taking

S Mishra, P Barclay, ML Lalumière - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Risk-sensitivity theory predicts that organisms are more likely to take risks when they are
unlikely to achieve their goals through safer, low-risk means. Those who are competitively …