Health research and driving studies show that subjective risk judgment (both comparative and absolute) and perceived self-efficacy are involved in risky behavior. This study investigates the influence of perceived self-efficacy on subjective risk judgment ...
Health-related aspects of Internet usage concerning to health information seeking and online pharmaceutical purchaseAbstract. In the present online study, health-related psychological variables were assessed among subjects who had searched the Internet ...
Abstract. Risk-taking is associated with suicide among depressed adolescents. In the United States, alcohol is among the most used substances resulting in need for treatment. While alcohol use relates to greater ...
Abstract. The Balloon-Analogue Risk Task (BART; Lejuez et al., 2002) is one of the most popular behavioral tasks suggested to assess risk-taking in the laboratory. Previous research has shown that the conventionally computed score is ...
Abstract. The study reports results regarding the dimensionality and construct validity of a newly developed, objective, video-based personality test that assesses the willingness to take risks in traffic situations. On the basis of the theory of risk ...
Abstract. A critical question is whether the same decision-making processes underlie task performance with hypothetical and real money as rewards. Across two studies, we administered the Balloon Analogue Risk Task to healthy young adults ...
Abstract: Previous studies observed differences between men and women in terms of their financial risk-taking. However, these differences may stem not only from the gender of the decision-maker but also from other ...
A television-use questionnaire was completed by undergraduate college students (N = 773). Based on results from the television-use survey, respondents’ popular television programs (33 shows) were content-analyzed for amounts of verbal aggression. A ...
Abstract. Existing research showed that negative mood and the anticipated fear of bad outcomes lead people to prefer risk-averse tendencies, and these effects have often been implicitly considered as a universal phenomenon. Nevertheless, ...
Abstract. People low in self-control have a strong proclivity toward risk-taking. Risk-taking behavior provides an opportunity to obtain some form of reward. Glucose, on the other hand, seems to facilitate reward and goal-directed ...