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Personality type, gender and risk: a framing analysis.(ECONOMICS ARTICLES)

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Recent literature has explored the effect of personality type on economic education. This paper extends that literature by tying personality types and gender to individual decision making for issues involving risk and uncertainty. This study replicates findings that the framing of uncertain decisions, although a violation of strict expected utility theory, is a widespread phenomenon. Through reported personality measures, framing, gender, and personality types are linked. These finding demonstrate that both personality types and gender are important when considering the evaluation of decisions involving risk and uncertainty. Personality types, as well as gender, ...

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