Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison

Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab : Task or Ask ? An

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes —| the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) —| with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in the lab |— here the amount ...

Comparison of p300 in risk-seeker and risk-averse people during simple gambling task

Risk preference, the degree of tendency to take risk, has a fundamental role at individual and social health and is divided to risk seeker and risk averse. Therefore, the study of neural corelates of risk preferences is essential at the field of psychology and psychiatry. The current study aimed to examine and compare an ERP component named P300 between subjects with different risk preferences....

Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits January 2008

This study measures risk attitudes using two paid experiments: the Holt and Laury (2002) procedure and a variation of the game show Deal or No Deal. The participants also completed a series of personality questionnaires developed in the psychology literature including the risk domains of Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002). As in previous studies risk attitudes vary within subjects across elicitation...

Measuring and incorporating attitudes toward risk into mathematical programming models : the case of farmers in kavar district iran

Comparison of Group and Individual Training on the Patients’ Compliance and Incidence of Warfarin Side Effects after Cardiac Valve Replacement

Introduction: Oral anticoagulant therapies are intended for prevention of thrombotic adverse effects and to maintain the level of drug without bleeding. The probability of risk highly depends on the patient compliance after discharge from hospital. This study was designed to compare the effect of group and individual education on patients’ compliance and incidence of adverse effects of warfarin...