Who takes risks when and why? Determinants of risk taking

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-216

  Figner, Bernd ^a,b   Weber, Elke U ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adolescence; Columbia Card Task; deliberative versus affective processes; domain specific risk taking; DOSPERT scale; gender differences; individual differences; risky decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961199528     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411415790     Document Type: Article

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