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A Normative Lay Theory of Risk-taking

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How do people make meaning of risk-taking? The present dissertation proposes a normative lay theory of risk-taking. The proposed model promotes the following core ideas: (a) Risk-taking is generally an ambiguous construct and requires the illumination of at least some dimensional parameters to disambiguate the risk behavior and risk-taker; (b)...

Keyword:

reckless, attitudes, responsible, perceptions, risk-taking, and lay theory

Subject:

Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, and Psychology

Creator:

Wages, James Ellis

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_845373 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15769
Ascribed Versus Acquired Representations of Social Class and Their Relation to Anti-Poor Prejudice

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Prejudice based on a person’s low socioeconomic status (SES) has been largely understudied in social psychology. In my dissertation research, I argue that understanding a perceiver’s mental model of SES is crucial to explaining anti-poor prejudice. I borrow from work in anthropology to characterize two main mental models of SES—ascribed...

Keyword:

attitudes, socioeconomic status, motivation, prejudice, and mental representation

Subject:

Psychology

Creator:

Ryan Lei Fleming

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/16/2018

Date Modified:

10/19/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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