BACKGROUND Little is known about risk attitudes and risk perceptions in multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVES The objectives of this paper are to investigate the range of risk attitudes and risk perceptions and examine associations between risk attitudes and risk perceptions and demographic and clinical features of the disease. METHODS A total of 223 individuals completed a risk questionnaire...

CONTEXT It is often argued that adolescents who become pregnant do not sufficiently appreciate the negative consequences, and that prevention programs should target participants' attitudes toward pregnancy. METHODS Data from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to examine whether 15-19-year-old females' attitudes toward pregnancy influence thei...

Decision-making competence (DMC) reflects individual differences in rational responding across several classic behavioral decision-making tasks. Although it has been associated with real-world risk behavior, less is known about the degree to which DMC contributes to specific components of risk attitudes. Utilizing a psychological risk-return framework, we examined the associations between risk ...

We examine the formation and evolution of corporate risk culture, defined as the preferences towards risk and uncertainty shared by a firm’s leaders, as well as its effect on corporate policies. Commonality in risk attitudes inside the firm arises through the selection of managers and directors with similar attitudes towards risk and uncertainty. Selection also leads to persistence in corporate...

This study attempted to replicate recent findings that Life History (LH) strategy predicts neither Psychopathic Attitudes (psychopathy, risk-taking, and mating effort) nor general intelligence (g). Further, we examined relations among LH strategy, Psychopathic Attitudes, and the Big Five to compare and contrast the personality correlates of these latent factors. Participants completed a measure...

Understanding public perceptions of climate change risks is a prerequisite for effective climate communication and adaptation. Many studies of climate risk perceptions have either analyzed a general operationalization of climate change risk or employed a case-study approach of specific adaptive processes. This study takes a different approach, examining attitudes toward 17 specific, climate-rel...

Abstract This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini et al. (2009), it is found that attitudes towards risk are moderately heritable, with about 20 percent of the variat...

(Austria). All errors and omissions are the responsibility of the present authors alone. 2 Abstract In this paper, we investigate the links between risk attitudes, risk-reducing behaviour and stated preferences for changes in risk. This is done in the context of an empirical study of " countermeasures " against radioactive contamination of land following nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl. Cou...

Attitudes towards risk are highly consequential in clinical disorders thought to be prone to “risky behavior”, such as substance dependence, as well as those commonly associated with excessive risk aversion, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and hoarding disorder (HD). Moreover, it has recently been suggested that attitudes towards risk may serve as a behavioral biomarker for OCD. We ...

As eCommerce security risk assessment, where the conventional methods of risk analysis are implemented, have lead continuously to problems, it is reasonable to assume that a faster and more business centric method to assess security risk can be helpful. In this paper, a modified mean value approach, which is supposed to be quickly conducted and understandable also for business people, is propos...