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Sex Differences in Risk Taking

Effects of Subjective and Objective Probability of Success

Friedrich Foersterling

Universitaet Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany

Sixty females and 60 males selected tasks which supposedly differed in objective difficulty and rated their subjective probability of success. It was found that females chose objectively easier tasks than males but subjectively these tasks were more difficult than the tasks which males chose.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 1, 149-152 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014616728061023
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