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“Men seem to enter more risky financial situations than women, which was part of the impetus for our study,” says Nichole Lighthall, the study’s lead author. “But only in the stressed condition did we see any statistical differences in risky behavior between men and women.”
USC (US)—New research shows that, unlike women, men under stress may be more likely to take risks, an impulse known to translate into real-life behaviors such as gambling, smoking, unsafe sex, and illegal drug use. Continue…
