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• BANK RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR IN AFRICA: THE INFLUENCE OF NET STABLE FUNDING RATIO.

  Authors:Kolade Sunday Adesina and John W. Muteba MwambaFrom:Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20214,184 words Article 1450LIn the aftermath of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision set new regulatory requirements, tagged Basel III, aimed at preventing banking instability during periods of economic...

• The effects of video racing games on risk-taking in consideration of the game experience

  Authors:Ewelina Stollberg and Klaus W. LangeFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 12, 20207,738 words Report 1410LIn the present study, we attempted to investigate whether it is the game experience that underlies processes leading to increased risk-taking while playing video racing games (VRGs). The aim of the study was to examine...

• Clustering of health risk behaviors among adolescents in Kilifi, Kenya, a rural Sub-Saharan African setting

  Authors:Derrick Ssewanyana, Amina Abubakar, Charles R. J. C. Newton, Mark Otiende, George Mochamah, Christopher Nyundo, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 12, 20209,071 words Report 1610LBackground Adolescents tend to experience heightened vulnerability to risky and reckless behavior. Adolescents living in rural settings may often experience poverty and a host of risk factors which can increase their...

• Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity.

  Author:Tsutomu HaradaFrom:Frontiers in PsychologyPeer-Reviewed

  Jan. 21, 2021204 words Brief article 1350LAuthor(s): Tsutomu Harada This study examined the effects of mood and risk-taking on divergent and convergent thinking using a Q-learning computation model. The results revealed that while mood was not significantly...

• LITVAK AT LARGE

  Author:Shalom CarmyFrom:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 309)

  Jan. 20211,489 words Column, Critical ess... 1250LCLEAN HANDS From the 1940s until his death in 1986, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was the most prominent authority on Jewish law in America. One of his briefer responses addressed an inquiry about whether it was permissible...

• Portfolio manager home-country culture and mutual fund risk-taking.

  Author:Wei JiaoFrom:Financial Management (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20208,850 words Article 1580LI find that home-country culture affects portfolio managers' investment risk-taking and performance. I focus on security value, which measures the degree to which people in a country assign importance to security,...

• Brain-Behavior Associations for Risk Taking Depend on the Measures Used to Capture Individual Differences.

  Authors:Loreen Tisdall, Renato Frey, Andreas Horn, Dirk Ostwald, Lilla Horvath, Andreas Pedroni, et al.From:Frontiers in Behavioral NeurosciencePeer-Reviewed

  Nov. 17, 2020270 words Brief article 1640LAuthor(s): Loreen Tisdall, Renato Frey, Andreas Horn, Dirk Ostwald, Lilla Horvath, Andreas Pedroni, Jörg Rieskamp, Felix Blankenburg, Ralph Hertwig, Rui Mata Maladaptive risk taking can have severe individual and...

• The art of prudent risk taking

  Author:Herbert S. KindlerFrom:Training & Development (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 19981,497 words Article Prudent risk taking requires the ability to make sound judgments or decisions in times of uncertainty. Since risk taking is often influenced by a decision maker's organizational culture, professional background, personal...

• Injury prevention: Individual factors affecting adult recreational snowboarders' actual and estimated speeds on regular slopes.

  Authors:Luis Carus and Isabel CastilloFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 10, 20215,392 words Report 1780LSpeed is a main factor affecting the kinematic of snow-sports accidents and the degree of severity of the resulting injuries. The aim of this study was to measure on-slope actual maximum speeds of snowboarders and to...

• Misalignment: corporation risk-taking and public duty

  Author:Steven L. SchwarzFrom:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 92, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 201623,934 words Article 1800LABSTRACT This Article argues for a "public governance duty" to help manage excessive risk-taking by systemically important firms. Although governments worldwide, including the United States, have issued an array of...

• Socio-demographic determinants of motorcycle speeding in Maha Sarakham, Thailand

  Authors:Vennis Hong, Sage K. Iwamoto, Rei Goto, Sean Young, Sukhawadee Chomduangthip, Natirath Weeranakin, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 16, 20205,469 words Report 1460LThailand has the highest road traffic fatality rate in Southeast Asia, making road safety a critical public health concern. A 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) Report showed that speeding behavior was the most...

• Evaluation of Risk Behavior in Gambling Addicted and Opioid Addicted Individuals.

  Authors:Edward J. Gorzelaoczyk, Piotr Walecki, Monika Boaszczyszyn, Ewa Laskowska, and Aleksandra Kawala-SterniukFrom:Frontiers in NeurosciencePeer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 2021236 words Brief article 1690LAuthor(s): Edward J. Gorzelaoczyk, Piotr Walecki, Monika Boaszczyszyn, Ewa Laskowska, Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk Evidence suggests that both opioid addicted and gambling addicted individuals are characterized by higher...

• Family Structure and History of Childhood Trauma: Associations With Risk-Taking Behavior Among Adolescents in Swaziland.

  Authors:Mokoena Patronella Maepa and Thobile NtshalintshaliFrom:Frontiers in Public HealthPeer-Reviewed

  Oct. 14, 2020209 words Brief article 1610LAuthor(s): Mokoena Patronella Maepa, Thobile Ntshalintshali Introduction: Risk-taking and self-harm behavior among adolescent are a global challenge. This study explored family structure and history of...

• College student risk-taking from three perspectives

  Authors:Mary R. Rolison and Avraham SchermanFrom:Adolescence (Vol. 38, Issue 152) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20035,424 words Article This study addressed college student risk-taking from three perspectives: dispositional trait, decision-tasking, and environmental. One hundred ninety-six college students provided information on sensation-seeking,...

• Understanding Risk-taking Behavior in Bullies, Victims, and Bully Victims Using Cognitive- and Emotion-Focused Approaches

  Author:Kean PoonFrom:Frontiers in PsychologyPeer-Reviewed

  Nov. 29, 2016360 words Author abstract, Rep... 1360LAuthor(s): Kean Poon Bullying and risky behavior are two common problems among adolescents and can strongly affect a youth's overall functioning when both coexist. Some studies suggest that bullying in adolescence...

• "I was raped by the broker on the first day of my arrival in the town." Exploring reasons for risky sexual behavior among sexually-active unmarried young female internal migrants in Ethiopia: A qualitative study

  Authors:Ararso Baru, Ikeola A. Adeoye, and Adeyemi O. AdekunleFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 13, 20207,177 words Report 1280LBackground Studies revealed that internal migrants are one of the most vulnerable groups for poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. Risky sexual behavior (RSB) is a threat to public...

• Stress Makes the Difference: Social Stress and Social Anxiety in Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.

  Authors:Kristina M. Hengen and Georg W. AlpersFrom:Frontiers in PsychologyPeer-Reviewed

  Feb. 22, 2021332 words Brief article 1280LAuthor(s): Kristina M. Hengen, Georg W. Alpers Stress and anxiety can both influence risk-taking in decision-making. While stress typically increases risk-taking, anxiety often leads to risk-averse choices. Few studies...

• Type of army service and decision to engage in risky behavior among young people in Israel

  Authors:Sharon Garyn-Tal and Shosh ShahrabanFrom:Judgment and Decision Making (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20158,075 words Report 1510LPrevious studies have examined the impact of military service on the decision to engage in risky behavior. Yet most of these studies focused on voluntary recruits, did not distinguish between legal and illegal risky...

• Government Guarantees, Transparency, and Bank Risk Taking

  Authors:Tito Cordelia, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, and Robert MarquezFrom:IMF Economic Review (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 201812,288 words Report 1600LWe present a model of bank risk taking and government guarantees. Levered banks take excessive risk as their actions are not fully priced at the margin by debt holders. The impact of government guarantees on bank risk...

• Carryover of domain-dependent risk preferences in a novel decision-making task.

  Authors:Martin S. Shapiro, Paul C. Price, and Edward MitchellFrom:Judgment and Decision Making (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 202011,187 words Article 1420LWe investigated whether people's risk taking tendency established in one domain (gains or losses) carries over to the other domain. Participants played a game in which they made repeated decisions between a fixed payoff...