Age Differences in Risk: Perceptions, Intentions and Domains
dc.contributor.author | Bonem, Emily M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ellsworth, Phoebe C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gonzalez, Richard | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-07T20:43:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-01T14:33:05Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2015-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bonem, Emily M.; Ellsworth, Phoebe C.; Gonzalez, Richard (2015). "Age Differences in Risk: Perceptions, Intentions and Domains." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 28(4): 317-330. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0894-3257 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-0771 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113748 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although it is commonly assumed that older people are more cautious and risk averse than their younger counterparts, the research on age differences in risk taking is mixed. While some research has found that older adults are less risk seeking, other research has found the opposite or no differences. One explanation is that age differences vary across risk domains. In two studies, we surveyed three adult age groups ranging in age from 18 to 83 on their risk perceptions and intentions of risky behaviors across several domains. Our studies showed that compared with young adults, older adults tend to see more risk in behaviors in health and ethical domains but less risk in behaviors from the social domain. A similar pattern occurred for participants' intentions of engaging in the risky behaviors. Older adults rated risky behaviors from health and ethical domains as less enjoyable and less likely to produce gains than young adults, whereas they rated risky behaviors from the social domain as more enjoyable, less unpleasant, and less likely to produce losses than young adults. These results suggest that age differences in risk preferences may vary across domains and may result from differing motivations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Mebraska Press | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | domain‐specific risk | en_US |
dc.subject.other | older adults | en_US |
dc.subject.other | risk preferences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | risk taking | en_US |
dc.title | Age Differences in Risk: Perceptions, Intentions and Domains | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113748/1/bdm1848.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/bdm.1848 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making | en_US |
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