Preference for Risk in Investing as a Function of Trait Optimism and Gender

By J. Felton, B. Gibson, David M. Sanbonmatsu. 2003

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bf11707ac0205fc47f3187e693132e60023164ad

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In Accounting

1. Jeffrey E. Sohl
2. John R. Becker-Blease

In Applied Psychology

1. John R. Becker-Blease
2. Jeffrey E. Sohl

Citations in the corpus

• Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Expected Retirement Benefits (2007, background): “The second school of thought that Felton et al. (2003) cited suggests sociocultural reasons for men taking greater risks than women.”
• The Effect of Gender Diversity on Angel Group Investment (2011, background): “Felton, Gibson, and Sanbonmatsu (2003), and Watson and McNaughton (2007) suggest that explanations for different risk tolerances can be grouped into biological and sociocultural explanations.”