Who Takes Risks When and Why?

By Bernd Figner, Elke U. Weber. 2011

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality and Risk Taking (2015, background): “Some risky decisions are made in emotionally charged contexts while other decisions are made in a cold deliberative state and these states can affect individuals ’ risk-taking levels (Figner and Weber, 2011).”
Individual Differences in Risky Decision Making: A Meta‐analysis of Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (2014, background): “In fact, individual differences interact with situational or task characteristics, thereby producing low or nonsignificant coefficients when risk-taking tendencies are assessed across different tasks or domains (e.g., Figner & Weber, 2011).”
How personality and policy predict pandemic behavior: Understanding sheltering-in-place in 55 countries at the onset of COVID-19. (2020, result): “Given the worldwide scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and 5 Our analysis also shows that men are more likely to leave their home than women, aligning with prior research finding that men tend to be less risk averse than women (Byrnes, Miller, & Schafer, 1999; Figner & Weber, 2011).”
Age differences in risk: : Perceptions, intentions and domains (2015, background): “Figner and Weber (2011) suggest that people’s attitude toward risk is not a single trait but rather an interaction *Correspondence to: Emily Bonem, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.”
Measuring Risk Literacy: The Berlin Numeracy Test (2012, background): “…refers to many topics (e.g., variability in probability distributions ; the effect of uncertainty on objectives ; exposure to danger and loss ; Figner & Weber, 2011; Fox & Tennenbaum, 2011; Gigerenzer, Swijtink, Porter, Das-ton, Beatty, Kruger, 1989)—economic and psychological theory have…”
Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, background): “While we would not deny the substantial and possibly larger influence of risk perceptions, almost all current decision theories suggest that both risk preferences (i.e., the willingness to accept these perceived risks) and risk perceptions matter (Figner & Weber, 2011).”