Tag: risk

Study suggests high-stress childhoods blind adults to potential loss

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release: Adults who lived high-stress childhoods have trouble reading the signs that a loss or punishment is looming, leaving themselves in situations that risk… Read more »

Study looks at how disliked classes affect incidence of college student cheating

From the Ohio State University press release: One of the tactics that discourages student cheating may not work as well in courses that college students particularly dislike, a new study has… Read more »

Study suggests gender differences in financial risk tolerance linked to different response to income uncertainty

From the University of Missouri-Columbia press release: Prior research has long shown that women are, on average, less risk tolerant in their financial decisions than men. This is a concern as… Read more »

High moral reasoning associated with increased activity in the human brain’s reward system

From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release: Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain’s frontostriatal reward system, both during periods… Read more »