Smokers' Decision Making: More than Mere Risk Taking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ert, Eyal ^a   Yechiam, Eldad ^b   Arshavsky, Olga ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REWARD; SMOKING; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879745795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068064     Document Type: Article

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