Children's risk taking in a gambling task and injury-risk situation: Evidence for domain specificity in risk decisions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-302

  Morrongiello, Barbara A ^a   Lasenby Lessard, Jennifer ^a   Corbett, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Domain specificity; Risk taking decisions; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149107247     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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