@article{ref1,
title="Threat to Life and Risk-Taking Behaviors: A Review of Empirical Findings and Explanatory Models",
journal="Personality and social psychology review",
year="2009",
author="Ben-Zur, Hasida and Zeidner, Moshe",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="109-128",
abstract="This article reviews the literature focusing on the relationship between perceived threat to life and risk-taking behaviors. The review of empirical data, garnered from field studies and controlled experiments, suggests that personal threat to life results in elevated risk-taking behavior. To account for these findings, this review proposes a number of theoretical explanations. These frameworks are grounded in divergent conceptual models: coping with stress, emotion regulation, replenishing of lost resources through self-enhancement, modifications of key parameters of cognitive processing of risky outcomes, and neurocognitive mechanisms. The review concludes with a number of methodological considerations, as well as directions for future work in this promising area of research.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-8683",
doi="10.1177/1088868308330104",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088868308330104"
}