scholarly journals WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE? SOCIAL RISK TAKING AND FOCUSING ON FUTURE LIMITATIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (Suppl_3) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Risk

The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 100981
Author(s):  
Livia Tomova ◽  
Jack L. Andrews ◽  
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Risk

scholarly journals Amplified Concern for Social Risk in Adolescence: Development and Validation of a New Measure

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack L. Andrews ◽  
Lucy E. Foulkes ◽  
Jessica K. Bone ◽  
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Rejection Sensitivity ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviours ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Health Risk Behaviours ◽  
Increased Sensitivity ◽  
Rate Of Decline ◽  
Development And Validation

In adolescence, there is a heightened propensity to take health risks such as smoking, drinking or driving too fast. Another facet of risk taking, social risk, has largely been neglected. A social risk can be defined as any decision or action that could lead to an individual being excluded by their peers, such as appearing different to one’s friends. In the current study, we developed and validated a measure of concern for health and social risk for use in individuals of 11 years and over (N = 1399). Concerns for both health and social risk declined with age, challenging the commonly held stereotype that adolescents are less worried about engaging in risk behaviours, compared with adults. The rate of decline was steeper for social versus health risk behaviours, suggesting that adolescence is a period of heightened concern for social risk. We validated our measure against measures of rejection sensitivity, depression and risk-taking behaviour. Greater concern for social risk was associated with increased sensitivity to rejection and greater depressed mood, and this association was stronger for adolescents compared with adults. We conclude that social risks should be incorporated into future models of risk-taking behaviour, especially when they are pitted against health risks.

scholarly journals Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Are More Averse to Social Than Nonsocial Risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Calcutt ◽  
Darby Proctor ◽  
Sarah M. Berman ◽  
Frans B. M. de Waal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Pan Troglodytes ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Risk Attitudes ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Tit For Tat

Social risk is a domain of risk in which the costs, benefits, and uncertainty of an action depend on the behavior of another individual. Humans overvalue the costs of a socially risky decision when compared with that of purely economic risk. Here, we played a trust game with 8 female captive chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) to determine whether this bias exists in one of our closest living relatives. A correlation between an individual’s social- and nonsocial-risk attitudes indicated stable individual variation, yet the chimpanzees were more averse to social than nonsocial risk. This indicates differences between social and economic decision making and emotional factors in social risk taking. In another experiment using the same paradigm, subjects played with several partners with whom they had varying relationships. Preexisting relationships did not impact the subjects’ choices. Instead, the apes used a tit-for-tat strategy and were influenced by the outcome of early interactions with a partner.

scholarly journals Acute stress alters individual risk taking in a time-dependent manner and leads to anti-social risk

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 877-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bendahan ◽  
L. Goette ◽  
J. Thoresen ◽  
L. Loued-Khenissi ◽  
F. Hollis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Dependent Manner

The changing landscape of friendship in the pandemic: Males, younger people, and less educated people experience more negative effects of the pandemic on their friendships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Daphne Ayers ◽  
Diego Guevara Beltran ◽  
Andrew Van Horn ◽  
Lee Cronk ◽  
Peter M. Todd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Subjective Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Stress Isolation ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Subjective Ses

Friendships are important for social support and mental health, yet social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic have limited people’s ability to interact with their friends during this difficult time. In August of 2020, we asked participants about changes in their friendships as a result of the pandemic - including changes in the quality of friendships and people’s feelings about their friends - as part of a larger longitudinal study. We found that people who are younger, male, and less educated reported more negative effects on their friendships as a result of the pandemic, including feeling lonelier and less satisfied with their friends, while people with higher subjective socioeconomic status (SES) wanted to make more and shallower friends than those with lower subjective SES. We also found that feelings of stress, isolation and guilt around friendship are associated with greater COVID-related social risk taking, such as being motivated to make new friends and visit friends in person. Males, who reported more negative effects of the pandemic on their friendship than females, also reported a greater likelihood than females that they would attend large parties. These results show that the pandemic is affecting friendships differently across demographic groups and suggest that the negative impacts of COVID-19 on friendships might motivate some COVID-related social risk taking in order to try to maintain friendships or build new ones.

scholarly journals Social Perception of Risk-Taking Willingness as a Function of Expressions of Emotions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomo Hareli ◽  
Shimon Elkabetz ◽  
Yaniv Hanoch ◽  
Ursula Hess
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Risky Behavior ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Financial Health ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Social Emotion ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Anger Expressions

Two studies showed that emotion expressions serve as cues to the expresser’s willingness to take risks in general, as well as in five risk domains (ethical, financial, health and safety, recreational, and social). Emotion expressions did not have a uniform effect on risk estimates across risk domains. Rather, these effects fit behavioral intentions associated with each emotion. Thus, anger expressions were related to ethical and social risks. Sadness reduced perceived willingness to take financial (Study 1 only), recreational, and social risks. Happiness reduced perceived willingness to take ethical and health/safety risks relative to neutrality. Disgust expressions increased the perceived likelihood of taking a social risk. Finally, neutrality increased the perceived willingness to engage in risky behavior in general. Overall, these results suggest that observers use their naïve understanding of the meaning of emotions to infer how likely an expresser is to engage in risky behavior.

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