Animals are exposed to high levels of anthropogenic disturbance, which has profound consequences for population persistence. Individuals can adjust their behavior plastically when faced with perturbations in environment and may show consistent differences the way they perceive respond risky situations. Over time, this variability among individuals response risk affect dynamics populations human...

We study the interaction between risk-taking and skewness-seeking behavior among a demographically diverse sample of French adults using an experiment that elicits certainty equivalent over lotteries vary second third moments orthogonally. find most common is risk avoidance skewness seeking. On average, we no two, weakly significant only in some segments population. That is, cases, seeking not ...