He warned of potential "risk aversion", adding: "It [the attacks] can compound all the problems that we were already facing".
The broker of a network of community health programs might need to be cogniscent of the members' limited resources (time, money and staff) and potential risk aversion in investing these resources.
The 7 point scale maximizes the amount of information, which most individuals can discriminate, compensates for both potential end aversion and loss of data, and reduces floor or ceiling effects [ 19].
Along has come a potential catastrophe, the partial aversion of which seems heroic rather than dully worthy.Finally, Mr Brown finds himself in his natural element in macroeconomic meltdown, just as Tony Blair was in questions of liberal interventionism.
The researchers made sure that the "work" (producing the noise) was stressful, and the resting music enjoyable, to rule out enjoyment of work or idleness aversion as potential prompts for overworking.
However, perceived violations suggest the aversion of potential error, and consequently have implications for error prevention.
According to the theory of loss aversion, people weigh potential losses much more heavily than potential gains when making choices under uncertainty.
This study examined potential factors associated with patient aversion of surgery.
One subscale assesses beliefs about one's own susceptibility to infectious diseases (Perceived Infectability); the other assesses emotional discomfort in contexts that connote an especially high potential for pathogen transmission (Germ Aversion).
Future studies are needed to investigate potential age-related changes in risk aversion and to examine the predictive association of risk aversion with financial and health decisions and outcomes in advanced age so that we may better understand how risk preferences impact real world outcomes across the lifespan.
Of note, the two biases reported here bear a striking resemblance to the previously described tendency to favour a currently-endowed or status quo economic position (deferral bias) and loss aversion, the tendency to weight potential losses more heavily than potential gains in economic choice (exclusion proneness).
