Personality and domain‐specific risk taking

By Nigel Nicholson, Emma Soane, Mark Fenton‐O'Creevy, P. Willman. 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity (2009, neutral): “Nicholson et al. (2005) find that safety”
Rule breaking in adolescence and entrepreneurial status: An empirical investigation (2009, background): “Numerous anecdotal stories have emerged with regard to the importance of positive forms of rule breaking for the invention of a new product or new production method, the generation of new markets, and the establishment of new ventures.”
Review of skill and the entrepreneurial process (2013, background): “…is increasing evidence of the multi-dimensional nature of this skill on a number of fronts: people differentiate between domains such as health, finance, safety; contexts, such as task demands, pressure or urgency, availability of information and features of the problem (Nicholson et al., 2005).”
Individual taxpayers' attitude and compliance behaviour in Nigeria: The moderating role of financial condition and risk preference (2011, methodology): “The study measured the general preference of taxpayer in taking financial risk, social risk, health risk, career risk and safety risk using five items on 5 point agreed/disagree likert-scale as provided in Nicholson et al. (2005).”
Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect (2011, positive): “…power for risk INVESTMENT, RESOLUTION OF RISK, AND THE ROLE OF AFFECT 6 taking, it further contains a trait measure of sensation seeking (Arnett, 1994), a risk-propensity scale for various life domains (Nicholson et al., 2005) and a general risk attitude question (based on Dohmen et al., 2005).”
Investors' Personality Influences Investment Decisions: Experimental Evidence on Extraversion and Neuroticism (2018, result): “Becker, Deckers, Dohmen, Falk, and Kosse [2012] found similar results as Nicholson et al. [2005] when employing the design proposed by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, and Sunde [2010] to elicit risk attitudes. Eysenck [1967] explained the risk-taking behavior of extraverted subjects with their demand to rais”
Predicting domain-specific risk taking with the HEXACO personality structure (2011, background): “In one study, for instance, extraversion, especially the NEO Excitement Seeking facet (E5; McCrae & Costa, 1992) was found to broadly predict risk taking (Nicholson et al., 2005).”