Sentence examples for make risky choices from inspiring English sources

We found that women are less likely to make risky choices than men at both dates.

The propensity to make risky choices has a genetic component, and recent studies have identified several specific genes that contribute to this trait.

The cumulated effect of this difference over trials is likely to affect behavior: participants who experience gloating in the past may be more likely to make risky choices in the future.

Moreover, there is the belief that at the age of 17 years, the brain is not yet mature enough to make significant career choices or it could make risky choices (Steinberg 2005), hence there are many students dropping off or exchanging study (Westenberg 2008).

They demonstrated that, following alcohol consumption, the relatively automatic expectation of a positive outcome tends to persist, while the systematic effortful processing that is required to consider possible negative consequences declines, thereby increasing the probability that people will make risky choices.

Results in the present study suggest that under pramipexole subjects make riskier choices following unexpected high wins than when under placebo.

When choosing between options yielding gains, humans are on average risk-averse (i.e. avoiding options with a higher uncertainty or variance), while when choosing between options yielding losses below a reference point, humans make riskier choices.

Q. Don't people sometimes have very good reasons for making risky choices? A. It's entirely rational for us to want to protect ourselves and to try to survive.

The company has often made risky choices in favor of its ecological and social ethics, including early bets that consumers would pay more for products made with organic cotton or Fair Trade certification, the latter of which is now available on thirty-three of its products.

"These firms will be making risky choices, some out of necessity," he says.

However, the MFFT results showed that the persistence in making risky choices was related to impulsiveness.