Psychology of Risk Taking: New Research
- ISBN-10
- 1634639197
- ISBN-13
- 9781634639194
- Category
- Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers
- Author
- Caitlin E. Nathanson
Description
Risk-taking is viewed as an aspect of proneness to problem behavior and a maladaptive trait and the tendency to engage in behaviors whose outcome is uncertain and entails negative consequences. Though risk-taking behavior is likely to be harmful or dangerous, it can also be functional and goal-directed and play an important part in developmental tasks. According to cognitive psychologists, many factors such as decision-making, perceptions' gains and losses, expectations about the future and biases in risk perception affect a persons' risk-taking behavior in developmental tasks. This book provides new research in the psychology of risk taking.
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