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SUBMITTER: Sekscinska K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8657608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sekścińska Katarzyna K Rudzinska-Wojciechowska Joanna J
International journal of environmental research and public health 20211206 23
We present a study (<i>N</i> = 645) investigating how power alters people's propensity to take investment risks in a changing decision context of gains and losses and the intensity of their reactions to this experience. The results indicate that people in a state of power made more risky investment decisions than the control group regardless of prior gain or loss outcome, whereas people lacking power took less investment risk than the control group, regardless of previous outcomes. Moreover, peo ...[more]