Information processing, situation specificity, and the generality of risk-taking behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyPublished 1 April 1972
Paul Slovic
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An effort was made to construct two strupturaliy similar risk-taking tasks in order to evaluate inter-task consist�ncy of individual differences.•Only the mode of response differed between tatks.In one task; isub::fects' cho�e i' �---
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PsychologyDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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