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Risk Seekers May Be Antisocial After All
Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences (2014)
  • Sergio Da Silva
  • Raul Matsushita, University of Brasilia
  • Luiza Ugarte
  • Mateus De Carvalho, University of Birmingham
Abstract
Undergraduates were given a battery of psychological tests to gauge their degree of antisocial personality traits (psychopathy, Machiavellianism and nihilism). The students also responded to questionnaires to assess their attitudes toward risk and intertemporal choice. Biological attributes of the respondents were also collected. We found a correlation between psychopathic, Machiavellian and nihilistic traits in the sample, and also that risk seekers were antisocial. Additionally, we found, on average, that younger subjects presented higher levels of psychopathy; atheists were more Machiavellian; and atheists who were anxious tend to be nihilists. Moreover, boys born from younger mothers were more risk seeking than girls born from older mothers. We also found older subjects to be less patient.
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2014
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Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences is open access
Citation Information
Sergio Da Silva, Raul Matsushita, Luiza Ugarte and Mateus De Carvalho. "Risk Seekers May Be Antisocial After All" Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences Vol. 2 Iss. 3 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sergiodasilva/155/