ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
The Young Male Syndrome in Domain-Specific Risk Taking
- Effrosyni Mitsopoulou
University of Southampton - Erich Graf
University of Southampton - Tim Wildschut
University of Southampton - Matthew Garner
University of Southampton
Abstract
The young male hypothesis proposes that young males are likely to display excessive risky behaviour compared to females and older adults. We found support for this hypothesis in some domains but not in others. Moreover, findings show that risk-taking progressively decreases in both sexes but the pattern differs within domains.
Aging
