The Contingent Effects of Risk Perception on Risk-Taking Behavior: Adolescent Participative Orientation and Marijuana Use

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che-Fu Lee ◽  
Yang Su ◽  
Barbara P. Hazard
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior

Predicted risk perception and risk-taking behavior: The case of impaired driving

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Dionne ◽  
Claude Fluet ◽  
Denise Desjardins
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Impaired Driving ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Predicted Risk

Mindsets Affect Risk Perception and Risk-Taking Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Keller ◽  
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Action Phases ◽  
Mindset Theory

Abstract. In two experiments, we investigated the downstream consequences of activating deliberative versus implemental mindsets on risk perception (Experiment 1) and risk-taking behavior (Experiment 2). We hypothesized that participants in an implemental versus deliberative mindset arrive at more optimistic judgments about their own risks of experiencing negative life events, compared to other peoples’ risks. The results of Experiment 1 confirm this hypothesis and reveal perceived controllability as an important moderator. Experiment 2 further augments these findings by demonstrating that participants in a deliberative mindset show less risk-taking behavior than participants in an implemental mindset using a behavioral risk task. Implications for research on mindset theory of action phases and mindset-dependent effects on risk perception and risk-taking behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals Construction Worker Risk-Taking Behavior Model with Individual and Organizational Factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Low ◽  
Man ◽  
Chan ◽  
Alabdulkarim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Construction Worker ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Worker Risk

Behavioral-based safety is an important application of behavioral science that can be used to address safety problems in the construction sector. An understanding of construction worker risk-taking behavior is deemed to be a crucial basis on which concerned authorities and construction companies can develop effective safety interventions to reduce construction accidents. However, no studies have been conducted to examine the effects of safety climate, work condition, attitude toward risk, cognitive bias, and risk perception on construction worker risk-taking behavior through a quantitative approach. Accordingly, this study aims to propose a research model that explains construction worker risk-taking behavior. A total of 188 valid datasets were obtained through a series of questionnaire surveys conducted in representative construction projects in Hong Kong. Confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modeling was adopted to validate the hypothesized research model. Results show that attitudes toward risk and cognitive bias have a positive influence, whereas risk perception and work conditions have a negative influence on construction worker risk-taking behavior. In addition, safety climate was negatively correlated with construction worker risk-taking behavior. Practical recommendations for reducing construction worker risk-taking behavior are also discussed in this paper.

A twin study on sensation seeking, risk taking behavior and marijuana use

2001 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna R Miles ◽  
Marianne B.M van den Bree ◽  
Anne E Gupman ◽  
David B Newlin ◽  
Meyer D Glantz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Twin Study ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior

Neglecting the Risks: The Irrationality of Health Behavior and the Quest for La Dolce Vita

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Sjöberg
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Personal Risk ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Lifestyle Risks

The paper is a discussion of personal risk taking and risk perception in the field of health-related behavior. It reviews work on addictions, which has shown the difficulties of impulse control in the pursuit of long-term commitments. Such long-term commitments are typically in conflict with temporary and strong urges to indulge in seeking pleasure and comfort. People know and do not know, at the same time, the likely consequences of their behavior, and relapses in addictions are very common. Risk perception research has elucidated some of these points and shown that people see risks as very different for themselves and others, especially lifestyle risks. This difference is related to the notion that they can control their own risks, while others neither can, nor want to, exercise such control. Hence, own competence and motivation is overestimated, and that of other people is underestimated. Wishful thinking further contributes to irrational tendencies. Campaigns intended to change risk-taking behavior run into very difficult resistance due to these factors, and risk messages may be interpreted as pertinent to others rather than oneself.

scholarly journals Effects of acetaminophen on risk taking

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 725-732
Author(s):  
Alexis Keaveney ◽  
Ellen Peters ◽  
Baldwin Way
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Total N ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior

Abstract Acetaminophen, an analgesic and antipyretic available over-the-counter and used in over 600 medicines, is one of the most consumed drugs in the USA. Recent research has suggested that acetaminophen’s effects extend to the blunting of negative as well as positive affect. Because affect is a determinant of risk perception and risk taking, we tested the hypothesis that acute acetaminophen consumption (1000 mg) could influence these important judgments and decisions. In three double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, healthy young adults completed a laboratory measure of risk taking (Balloon Analog Risk Task) and in Studies 1 and 2 completed self-report measures of risk perception. Across all studies (total n = 545), acetaminophen increased risk-taking behavior. On the more affectively stimulating risk perception measure used in Study 2, acetaminophen reduced self-reported perceived risk and this reduction statistically mediated increased risk-taking behavior. These results indicate that acetaminophen can increase risk taking, which may be due to reductions in risk perceptions, particularly those that are highly affect laden.

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