Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2019 - This version: March 11, 2019
take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This likely contributes to the predictive power of the …