Personality and risk-taking: Common biosocial factors

Journal of Personality

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 999-1029

  Zuckerman, Marvin ^a   Kuhlman, D Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DRD4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STUDENT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; RISK-TAKING; STUDENTS;

EID: 0034547827     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.00124     Document Type: Article

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