The love of risk receives little attention in textbooks and classroom discussions because clear and intuitively appealing examples are difficult to find. Examples of risk love are presented from empirical studies of racetrack betting; betting patterns are plausibly interpreted as the observable outcome of risk-loving behavior.
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Asch et al. (1990) studied this question.
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