risk perception
Is risk taking used as a cue in mate choice?
by: shinta, 27 pagesMore frequent risk taking among young men than women has been explained as a sexually selected trait, perhaps advertising male quality. We investigated this hypothesis in three studies. ...
Neither Daredevils nor Wimps: Attitudes toward Physical Risk Takers as Mates
by: shinta, 24 pagesFarthing (2005) tested a prediction derived from costly-signaling theory, that women would prefer physical risk takers (brave, athletic, fit) over risk-avoiders as long-term mates. Using scenarios ...
Motivating Latino Caregivers of Children With Asthma to Quit Smoking: A Randomized Trial
by: shinta, 10 pagesAsthma prevalence and morbidity are much higher among Latinos than among other racial and ethnic groups (Cloutier, Wakefield, Hall, & Bailit, 2002; Lara, Akinbami, Flores, & ...
A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations
by: shinta, 15 pagesThis paper proposes a revised version of the original Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale developed by Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002) that is shorter and applicable to a broader range of ...
Gender Differences in Risk Assessment: Why do Women Take Fewer Risks than Men?
by: shinta, 16 pagesAcross many real-world domains, men engage in more risky behaviors than do women. To examine some of the beliefs and preferences that underlie this difference, 657 participants assessed their ...
Intuition and affect in risk perception and decision making
by: shinta, 4 pagesIntuition and affect have been neglected topics in the literature on human judgment and decision making for a long time. Judgmental processes involved in risk perception and ...
Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster
by: shinta, 9 pagesEnvironmental events such as natural disasters may influence the public’s affective reactions and decisions. Shortly after the 2004 Tsunami disaster we assessed how affect elicited by ...
Anticipated and experienced emotions in environmental risk perception
by: shinta, 14 pagesAffective forecasting with respect to two environmental risks (ozone depletion, air pollution) was investigated by studying tourists who travelled to either Australia or Bangkok and were thus ...
On the perception and operationalization of risk perception
by: shinta, 8 pagesWe compare and critique two measures of risk perception. We suggest that a single question — “How risky is the situation?” — captures the concept of risk perception more ...
How to make a risk seem riskier: The ratio bias versus construal level theory
by: shinta, 6 pagesWhich statement conveys greater risk: “100 people die from cancer every day” or “36,500 people die from cancer every year”? In statistics where both frequencies and ...
