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Psychological profiles associated with positive and negative risk-taking in adults
Although risk is often considered in the context of maladaptive behaviors, risks can also be positive, allowing individuals to pursue meaningful...
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Longitudinal Associations Between Peer Victimization and Positive and Negative Social Risk Taking in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Adolescence is characterized by heightened risk taking, along with salient peer relationships. This study leveraged data from 167 adolescents across...
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Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions
Risk taking increases during the final round of a set of repeated risky decisions, a phenomenon known as the ending effect. Recent evidence suggests...
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Diverging effect of mortality salience on risk taking: the moderating role of time horizon
Abundant literature has examined how mortality salience influences risk-taking behavior. However, these researches have placed relatively little...
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ADHD and Risk-Taking Behavior: Associations, Mechanisms, and Interventions
One of the most concerning aspects of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is its association with numerous risk-taking behaviors....
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Insurance companies’ risk-taking behavior in the face of economic policy uncertainty: a mediated analysis
The commercial operations of insurance firms are based on assumptions for the future. Expectations are greatly impacted by uncertainty, which is...
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Social contextual risk taking in adolescence
Adolescence is a time of heightened risk-taking behaviours. Such risk taking does not occur in a vacuum because most decisions of adolescents to...
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Future negative time perspective and risk-taking behaviors among chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model
The association between future time perspective and risk-taking behaviors has received extensive empirical attention. However, the underlying...
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How Do Regulatory Focus and the Big Five Relate to Work-domain Risk-taking? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI
Risk-taking in the ‘work’ domain constitutes a fundamental building block for a wide range of important decisions (e.g., investment) and behaviors...
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Impulsivity and sensitivity to reward as mediating factors of the negative relationship between emotional intelligence and health-related risk-taking: evidence from a sample of university students
BackgroundBetter abilities in emotional intelligence (EI) have been linked to a decreased tendency to engage in health-related risk behaviour....
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Explore with Me: Peer Observation Decreases Risk-Taking but Increases Exploration Tendencies across Adolescence
It has been assumed that adolescents increase risk-taking tendencies when peers are present but findings on experimental decision-making have been...
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Increased Urination Urgency Exacerbates Sexual Risk-Taking Through Heightened Sexual Arousal
Increased urination urgency has been shown to facilitate impulse control in cognitive domains, but its effects in other areas are unknown. We...
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The unique contribution of childhood maltreatment types to risk-taking behavior and self-esteem
Child maltreatment is a pervasive public health problem. Evidence from numerous studies suggests that child maltreatment leads to both short-term and...
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The Effect of Parents and Peers on the Neural Correlates of Risk Taking and Antisocial Behavior During Adolescence
Social and neurobiological factors independently associate with the development of antisocial behavior during adolescence, yet it is unclear how...
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Association Between School Bullying Victimization and Sexual Risk-Taking among South Korean Adolescents: The Role of Teacher and Parental Relationships
Despite the wealth of research investigating the adverse consequences of bullying, few studies have tested how bullying victimization is related to...
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Risk-Taking Behavior Among Male Adolescents: The Role of Observer Presence and Individual Self-Control
A number of studies have focused on the same-sex peer effect on and the developmental difference in adolescent risk-taking in terms of the dual...
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Measuring Sexual Risk-Taking: A Systematic Review of the Sexual Delay Discounting Task
The Sexual Delay Discounting Task (SDDT; Johnson & Bruner,
2012 ) is a behavioral economic task that assesses sexual risk-taking by measuring...
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Too Many Males or Too Many Females? Classroom Sex Ratio, Life History Strategies and Risk-Taking Behaviors
Prior research finds that sex ratio, defined as the proportion of males and females in a given context, is related to engagement in risk-taking...
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Effects of multiple discrete emotions on risk-taking propensity
Previous studies have examined the effects of discrete emotions on risk taking. One unstudied question in this literature involves comparisons of...