Sex differences in the risks a person selects for himself and the risks he selects for someone else
PsycEXTRA DatasetPublished 1 January 1967
Paul Slovic, Malcolm S. Weinstein, Sarah Lichtenstein
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Abstract
102 undergraduates, working in pairs, selected bets for themselves and bets for the "other subject" -to _play.•It was found that persons chose essentially the same probabi'lity of winning for the other person as for themselves, regardless of the sex of the other person.Women's choices .were more conservative•than men's choices..
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Psychology
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