Proverbs as recommendations regarding risk taking

• Authors: Przybyszewski K. , Tyszka T. , Ulatowska H. , Spence W. K.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This research focuses on how people evaluate proverbs as recommendations about risk taking. It was found that the rating of a proverb without any context was typically better than the rating of the same proverb when a context was provided. It was also found that the advice given by a proverb was rated no higher than a direct recommendation. Finally, we found that the acceptance of advice given in contradictory proverbs was inconsistent. The inconsistency of ratings was higher for proverbs than for direct recommendations, and for the proverbs in the context of concrete scenarios than for the same proverbs given without any scenario.

Keywords

EN

DECISION MAKING; PROVERBS; RECOMMENDATIONS; RISK TAKING

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 224-233
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Przybyszewski K.

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Tyszka T.

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Ulatowska H.

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Spence W. K.

• K. Przybyszewski, Wyzsza Szkola Przedsiebiorczosci i Zarzadzania im. Leona Kozminskiego, ul. Jagiellonska 59, 03-301 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01773821