While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that 'women are more
risk averse than men', this conclusion merits investigation. After briefly clarifying the …

An intensive program of 40 years of research has produced various conceptual cognitive
and affective approaches to environmental risk perception. In this short review of the most …

This review of 122 research reports (184 independent samples, 14,900 subjects) found
average r=. 274 for prediction of behavioral, judgment, and physiological measures by …

Aim Concurrently with increasingly permissive attitudes towards marijuana use and its
legalization, the prevalence of marijuana use has increased in recent years in the US …

This study highlights the relevance of gender differences in competitiveness for the gender
gap in latent and nascent entrepreneurship. Using data obtained from a recent large-scale …

Two experiments examined the psychological and biological antecedents of hierarchical
differentiation and the resulting consequences for productivity and conflict within small …

Given the importance of perceived susceptibility to a disease in adopting preventive
behaviors, and the negative impact of optimism bias on prevention, this paper aimed to …

Based on a growing body of experimental and other studies, two recent economics survey
articles claim to find “strong evidence” that women are “fundamental [ly]” more risk-averse …

Behavioral research has revealed how normal human cognitive processes can tend to lead
us astray. But do these affect economic researchers, ourselves? This article explores the …

In this article, an extended version of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
(UTAUT) is applied to explore the significance of various antecedents of acceptance of eight …