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EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE APPRAISAL PATTERN ON PROBABILITY WEIGHING FUNCTION AND RISK BEHAVIOR BETWEEN GENDERS
International Journal of Business and Society
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EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE APPRAISAL PATTERN ON PROBABILITY WEIGHING FUNCTION AND RISK BEHAVIOR BETWEEN GENDERS
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Ch’ng, Kean-Siang
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The paper sets out to explore the effect of manipulating the appraisal dimensions, controllability and certainty, which was induced by emotions fear and anger, on probability weighting of a risky prospect between genders. By targeting the risk perception dimensions; subjects’ perception on the controllability and certainty of a situation were investigated. The experimental subjects were then asked to make choices in a lottery game. The results showed that high controllability and certainty dimensions could mitigate over-reaction to probability of losing among women. However, we found no effect of the two dimensions on men. Past studies have shown women were emotionally more sensitive and tend to overweigh probability of losing higher than men. This misperception of probability has large consequences on income discrepancy, risk tolerance and investment decisions between genders. This paper showed manipulating the controllability and certainty dimensions when faced with a risky choice could mitigate the misperception of risk. Keywords: Risks; Appraisal Dimensions; Probability weighing; Lottery; Experiment.
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Faculty of Economics and Business, UNIMAS
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2017-11-17
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/494
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International Journal of Business and Society; Vol 18 No 1 (2017): International Journal of Business and Society
1511-6670 |
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eng
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http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/494/434
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Copyright (c) 2017 International Journal of Business and Society
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