Risk Propensity Among Liberals and Conservatives: The Effect of Risk Perception, Expected Benefits, and Risk Domain

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 713-721

  Choma, Becky L ^a   Hanoch, Yaniv ^b   Hodson, Gordon ^c   Gummerum, Michaela ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

attitudes; expectancies; individual differences; political psychology; risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903531379     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613519682     Document Type: Article

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