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Risk-taking (Psychology)

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• Human behavior

• Risk behavior
• Risky behavior
• Taking risks

• Target Risk: Dealing with the Danger of Death, Disease and Damage in Everyday Decisions (1994), by Gerald J. S. Wilde (HTML with commentary in Canada)
• Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Molly Wallace
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Risk and Decision Making: Perspectives and Research, by National Research Council Committee on Risk and Decision Making (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Brief History of Human Behaviour, and How to Become an Enlightened Global Citizen (c2013), by John Preece (multiple formats with commentary at Smashwords)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency (London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, c2009), ed. by Séverine Deneulin and Lila Shahani (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)
• The Manipulation of Human Behavior (New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, c1961), ed. by Albert D. Biderman and Herbert Zimmer (HTML at archive.org)
• Conflict, Arousal, and Curiosity (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by D. E. Berlyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reviewing the Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer, ed. by Thomas E. Backer, Susan L. David, and Gerald Soucy (PDF at NIH)
• Behavioral Analysis and Treatment of Substance Abuse, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Sin of Hagar (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1896), by Helen Mathers (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Femme et le Pantin: Roman Espagnol (in French; 1898), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; and A Whisper in the Dark (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Louisa May Alcott (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2007-) (full serial archives)

• System (1900-1927) (full serial archives)

• Monthly Labor Review, by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (full serial archives)
• The American Labor Legislation Review (partial serial archives)
• International Labour Review (partial serial archives)

• Official Bulletin, by International Labour Office (partial serial archives)

• Monthly Labor Review, by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (full serial archives)
• The American Labor Legislation Review (partial serial archives)

• Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification: Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3, 1977 (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States Senate Committee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, by Frances Boyd Calhoun (Gutenberg text)

• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)

• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Delusion and Mass-Delusion (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1949), by Joost Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)

• T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Social Deviancy and Adolescent Personality: An Analytical Study with the MMPI (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by John C. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach (1994), ed. by Judith D. Auerbach, Christina Wypijewska, and Keith H. Brodie (page images at NAP)
• Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Diane E. Goldstein (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Exploring Information Behaviour: An Introduction (in multiple languages; c2022), by Thomas D. Wilson (multiple formats at informationr.net)
• How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018), by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger (PDF at renewconsultants.com)
• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Introduction to Biological Psychology (Sussex, UK: University of Sussex Library, 2023), ed. by Catherine Hall (multiple formats at Sussex)
• A Species in Denial (originally published 2003; revised online edition ca. 2009), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Charles Birch (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays on Work and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
• The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Value of Order (Deep River, CT: National Foremen's Institute, c1942), by Harry Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of Labor According to Thomas Aquinas: A Study in Social Philosophy (dissertation; Catholic University of America Philosophical Studies v49; 1939), by Sylvester Michael Killeen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Will-Power and Work (third edition; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co;, 1922), by Jules Payot, trans. by Richard Duffy
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Glass-Blower and Other Poems, by Jan Struther (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Echoes From Labor's War: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (introduction and poems), by Dawn Fraser (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)

• From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (Situated Technologies pamphlet #7; New York: Architecture League of New York, 2010), by Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu (PDF with commentary at archleague.org)

• College Grad Job Hunter: Insider Techniques and Tactics For Finding a Top-Paying Entry Level Job, by Brian D. Krueger (searchable HTML at collegegrad.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.