This study of 29 MBA students compares two models of risk perception for both financial and health risk stimuli. The … first, inspired by Luce and Weber's Conjoint Expected Risk (CER) model, uses five dimensions: probability of gain, loss and … better fit for most subjects and stimuli. Adding the psychological risk dimensions from the Slovic et al. model explained …

In this article, we describe a multistudy project designed to explain observed cross-national differences in risk …

three-months intervals for their willingness to take risk, three-months expectations of returns and risks for the market and … their own portfolio, and self-reported risk attitude. This unique dataset allowed us to analyze how these variables changed … over time, and whether changes in risk taking were related to changes in expectations and/or risk attitudes. Risk taking …

We present a psychometric scale that assesses risk taking in five content domains: financial decisions (separately for … consistency is evaluated for a sample of American undergraduate students. As expected, respondents' degree of risk taking was … highly domain-specific, i.e. not consistently risk-averse or consistently risk-seeking across all content domains. Women …