"Leaving it to chance" - Passive risk taking in everyday life

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 705-715

  Keinan, Ruty ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Inaction; Passive; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870611138     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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