One of the fastest growing areas within psychology is the field of emotion regulation.
However, enthusiasm for this topic continues to outstrip conceptual clarity, and there …

To represent the state‐of‐the‐art in an effort to understand the relation between personality
and risk taking, we selected a popular decision task with characteristics that parallel risk …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of subjective and financial literacy, big five
personality traits and emotions (fear, anger, hope and sadness) on risk aversion, risky …

Addiction as Disease or a Consequence of Learning? The nature of addiction remains a
matter of debate. One school of thought is that addictive behavior is learned and is not the …

While making decisions under objective risk conditions, the probabilities of the
consequences of the available options are either provided or calculable. Brand et al.(Neural …

Relative to girls and women, boys and men experience disproportionate rates of
“externalizing” problems (eg, aggressive behavior, substance use disorders, and antisocial …

Adolescence is often described as a period of increased risk taking relative to both
childhood and adulthood. This inflection in risky choice behavior has been attributed to a …

Researchers and clinicians frequently use behavioral measures to assess decision making.
The most common task that is marketed to clinicians is the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) …

Risk taking is fundamental to organizational decision making. Extending prior work that has
identified individual and situational antecedents of risk taking, we explore a significant …

Suicide attempters have been found to be impaired in decision-making; however, their
specific biases in evaluating uncertain outcomes remain unclear. Here we tested the …