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- Abstract
- Understanding Risk From a Social Perspective
- The Costs and Benefits of Trust
- A Role for Disgust
- The Present Research
- Open Science Statement
- Study 1: Disease Risk Perception Among Undergraduate Students
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- Risk perception
- Comprehension check
- Results
- Comprehension check
- Risk perception
- Discussion
- Study 2: Financial Risk Behavior Among Community Members
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- Risk behavior
- Attention check
- Results
- Adaptive risk taking
- Maladaptive risk taking
- Discussion
- Study 3: Disease Risk Perception in a Global Sample
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- National group identification
- Risk perception
- Trust
- Disgust
- Results
- Risk perception
- Trust
- Disgust
- Indirect effects
- Discussion
- Study 4: Health Risk Perception in the Field
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- Social identification
- Trust
- Risk perception
- Descriptive norms for risk taking
- Trait impulsivity
- Attention check
- Results
- Risk perception
- Trust
- Indirect effect
- Discussion
- Study 5: Health Risk Behavior in the Field
- Method
- Participants and design
- Measures
- Social identification
- Trust
- Disgust
- Risk behavior
- Results
- Risk behavior
- Trust and disgust
- Indirect effect
- Discussion
- Study 6: General Risk Perception Among Undergraduate Students
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Materials and measures
- College identity prime
- Perceived trust
- Risk perception
- Results
- Analytic strategy
- Perceived trust
- Risk perception
- Indirect effects
- Discussion
- Study 7: Disease Risk Perceptions Among Community Members
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- Political group membership
- Risk perception
- Trust
- Disgust
- Target perception
- Comprehension and manipulation checks
- Results
- Indirect effects
- Discussion
- Study 8: Financial Risk Behavior Among Community Members
- Method
- Participants and design
- Procedure
- Measures
- Risk behavior
- Trust
- Disgust
- Comprehension check
- Results
- Indirect effects
- Discussion
- Meta-Analysis
- General Discussion
- Theoretical and Practical Implications
- Strengths and Limitations
- Conclusions
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Abstract
Risk taking is typically viewed through a lens of individual deficits (e.g., impulsivity) or normative influence (e.g., peer pressure). An unexplored possibility is that shared group membership, and the trust that flows from it, may play a role in reducing risk perceptions and promoting risky behavior. We propose and test a Social Identity Model of Risk Taking in eight studies (total N = 4,708) that use multiple methods including minimal...