Personality traits and risky decision-making in a controlled experimental task: An exploratory study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 215-226

  Lauriola, Marco ^a   Levin, Irwin P ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Personality traits; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000234595     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00130-6     Document Type: Article

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