Decision-making competence predicts domain-specific risk attitudes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Weller, Joshua A ^a,b   Ceschi, Andrea ^c   Randolph, Caleb ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making competence; Domain specific risk; DOSPERT; Expected value; Individual differences; Risk perception; Risk return model; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930948043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00540     Document Type: Article

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