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• Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading
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When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she was the author of a book entitled In Praise of Risk, implying that her death confirmed the ancient adage that to philosophize is to learn how to die. Now available in English, this magnificent and already much-discussed book indeed offers a trenchant critique of the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Yet this is not a book on how to die but on how to live. For Dufourmantelle, risk entails an encounter not with an external threat to life but with something hidden in life that conditions our approach to such ordinary risks as disobedience, passion, addiction, leaving family, and solitude Keeping jargon to a minimum, Dufourmantelle weaves philosophical reflections together with clinical case histories. The everyday fears, traumas, and resistances that therapy addresses brush up against such broader concerns as terrorism, insurance, addiction, artistic creation, and political revolution. Taking up a project than joins the work of many French thinkers, such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Giorgio Agamben, and Catherine Malabou, Dufourmantelle works to dislodge Western philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics from the redemptive logic of sacrifice. She discovers the kernel of a future beyond annihilation where one might least expect to find it, hidden in the unconscious. In an era defined by enhanced security measures, border walls, trigger warnings, and endless litigation, Dufourmantelle's masterwork provides a much-needed celebration of the risks that define what it means to live.
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• Risk, now and then. Confessions of a reformed risk-taker ; What is risk anyway?
• Natural-born risk-takers. Risk and the brain ; Risk and genes ; Risk and gender ; Risk and age
• Making the most of risk. Risk and preparation ; Risk and connection ; Risk and emotion ; Risk and stress ; Risk and recovery
• Risk, now and future. Building the better risk-taker.

Are risk-takers born or made? Why are some more willing to go out on a limb (so to speak) than others? How do we weigh the value of opportunities large or small that may have the potential to change the course of our lives? These are just a few of the questions that author Kayt Sukel tackles, applying the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to compelling real-world situations. Building on a portfolio of work that has appeared in such publications as Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and more, Sukel offers an in-depth look at risk-taking and its role in the many facets of life that resonates on a personal level. Smart, progressive, and truly enlightening, The Art of Risk blends riveting case studies and hard-hitting science to explore risk-taking and how it impacts decision-making in work, play, love, and life, providing insight in understanding individual behavior and furthering personal success.

• Introduction Researching Risk and Everyday Life Defining Risk Risk and Border Crossings Individualization, Risk Modernity and Biography The Case of Work Plural Rationalities From Blitz to Contemporary Crime Perceptions of Time and Place in a `Risk Modern' City Final Thoughts.
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Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk. Drawing on the work of key theorists - Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, and Mary Douglas - the authors examine and critique theories of risk in the light of their own research and presents case studies which show how notions of risk interact with day-to-day concerns.
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• Part 1 What is risk taking behaviour?: a short description of the long history of risk taking
• definitions of risk taking
• the multifacetedness of risk taking. Part 2 How do we perceive risks?: risk perception and risk acceptance
• cross-cultural aspects of risk perception. Part 3 Who engages in risk taking behaviour?: risk taking and the theory of evolution
• risk taking and arousal
• individual (personality) differences and risk taking
• risk taking and sensation seeking
• reversal theory. Part 4 Which situational factors influence risk taking behaviour?: decision making under uncertainty
• historical development of expectancy x value theories
• modern expectancy x value theories
• utility theories and risk taking. Part 5 How is risk taking motivated and emotionally experienced?: risk taking and theories of motivation
• risk taking and emotions. Part 6 What controls risk taking behaviour?: personal control - definitions and historical concepts
• personal control and evolutionary utility
• personal control and psycho-biological consequences
• perceived control and risk taking behaviour
• illusion of control
• the two-process model of perceived control. Part 7 What are the consequences of risk taking behaviour?: young people, risk taking behaviour and accidents
• risk taking and sport accidents
• risk taking behaviour and industrial accidents
• risk taking and traffic accidents
• theories of risk taking and traffic accidents. Part 8 How do we adapt to the desire for and the control of risk taking behaviour?: risk compensation behaviour and risk homeostasis theory
• technical or psychological accident reduction. Part 9 How can we explain risk taking behaviour holistically?: developing risk motivation theory
• research examining risk motivation theory. Part 10 What does risk motivation mean for our daily lives as researchers and as "Normal" risk takers?: research implications of a motivation for risks
• implications of a risk motivation for "real life"
• personal conclusions.
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This book aims to help the reader to understand what motivates people to engage in risk taking behaviour, such as participating in traffic, sports, financial investments, or courtship. The consequences of risk taking may be positive, or result in accidents and injuries, especially in traffic. The wealth of studies and theories (about 1000 references) is used to offer a cohesive, holistic view of risk motivation. The risk motivation theory is a dynamic state-trait model incorporating physiological, emotional and cognitive components of risk perception, processing and planning. If a deficit exists between desired and perceived risk, risk compensation behaviour results. A feedback loop provides new information for the next perception-motivation-behaviour process. Assumptions were tested and support was found with 120 subjects in a longitudinal study. The concepts and findings are discussed in relation to psychological theories and their meaning for our daily lives.
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• The risk construct
• risk and optimality
• risk appraisal
• individual differences in risk-taking
• risk-taking - a developmental perspective
• group risk-taking - selected topics
• stress, affect and risk-taking
• risk-taking and health
• risk-taking and accident causation
• risk-taking, design and training.
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This is an examination of the psychological foundations and ramifications of risk-taking behaviour. A major feature of the book is its comprehensive coverage of ideas from multiple perspectives - within psychology itself as well as areas like economics, medicine and decision analysis - and its integration of them. The book offers insights into fundamental risk concepts; discoveries about risk-taking in group settings; models and evidence about practices that affect individuals' susceptibility to health threats and recommendations on how personnel training as well as product, architectural and organizational design can encourage appropriate risk-taking.
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• 1. A social psychological framework for analysing risk
• 2. Hazard perception
• 3. Individual and group differences in risk perception
• 4. Decision-making about risks
• 5. Risk and emotion
• 6. Risk communication
• 7. Errors and accidents, emergencies and disasters
• 8. Risk management: risk in complex systems
• 9. Social amplification, social representations and identity processes
• 10. Changing risk reactions: lessons from the psychology of risk.
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Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic and socio-political changes globally - the chaos in the world banking system and the financial crisis and recessions that it presaged; the Arab Spring and the revolutionary shifts in power in the Middle East with rippled consequences around the world; the development of ever-more sophisticated cyber-terrorism that can strike the private individual or the nation state with equal ease. Amidst these changes in the face of hazard, do the psychological models built to explain human reactions to risk still apply? Has the research over the last few years resulted in an improvement in our understanding of how people perceive and act in relation to risk? In this second edition Professor Dame Breakwell uses illustrations and current examples to address these questions and provide a totally up-to-the minute review of what is known about the psychology of risk.
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Antony Dobson has lived through a lot in his short twenty-six years. Desperate, loveable and utterly confused, he gets a kick out of taking risks, gets a thrill from taking himself right to the edge and, so far at least, back again. But haunted by childhood memories and guarding a dark, humiliating secret that he dare not reveal, he's hurtling fast towards the point of no return. Impressive and irresistibly readable, this tight-rope-walk of a novel explores memory, love, identity, and absence in a dazzling display that is in turn sad, witty and deeply affecting. Praise for Ray Robinson's first novel, "Electricity": 'An energetic debut, bristling with talent' - "The Times". 'Its fast, furious plot, kaleidoscopic imagery, blunt observations and a wry, ingenious, hugely compassionate heroine make this eviscerating debut novel a breath-taking assault on the senses' - "Guardian".
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• 1. A psychological framework for analysing risk
• 2. Hazard perception
• 3. Individual and group differences in risk perception
• 4. Decision-making about risks
• 5. Risk and emotion
• 6. Risk communication
• 7. Errors, accidents and emergencies
• 8. Risk and complex organisations
• 9. Social amplification and social representations of risk
• 10. Changing risk responses.
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Risk surrounds and envelopes us. Without understanding it, we risk everything and without capitalising on it, we gain nothing. This accessible new book from Glynis M. Breakwell comprehensively explores the psychology of risk, examining how individuals think, feel and act, as well as considering the institutional and societal assessments, rhetorics and reactions about risk. Featuring chapters on all the major issues in the psychology of risk including risk assessment, hazard perception, decision-making, risk and crisis management, risk and emotion, risk communication, safety cultures, the social amplification and social representation of risk and mechanisms for changing risk responses, Breakwell uses illustrations and examples to bring to life the significance of her research findings. She provides an innovative overview of current knowledge on the subject but also suggests that there are many fascinating questions still to be answered.
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• Part 1: Introduction 1. Edgework and the Risk Taking Experience Stephen Lyng
• Part 2: Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework 2. Sociology at the Edge: Social theory and voluntary risk taking Stephen Lyng 3. Edgework: A subjective and structural model of negotiating boundaries Dragan Milovanic
• Part 3: The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and aesthetics 4. The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and anarchy Jeff Ferrell 5. Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes David Courtney
• Part 4: Group Variations in Edgework Practices: Gender, age and class 6. Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework Jennifer Lois 7. Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency William J. Miller
• Part 5: Mainstreaming Edgework 8. Adventure Without Risk is Like Disneyland Lori Holyfield, Lillian Jonas and Anna Zajicek 9. Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents Charles W. Smith
• Part 6: Historicizing Edgework 10. Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian lawyers and mountaineers Jonathan Simon 11. On the Edge: Drugs and the consumption of risk in late modernity Gerda Reith
• Part 7: Edgework in the Academy 12. Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure Gideon Sjoberg 13. Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a bottom dog Mark S. Hamm.
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What do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.
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• Mount Washington
• Change Redemption
• Stealing Titanic
• The Zendo, the Dojo, and the Superbike
• Hill Fever
• The All-Seeing Eye
• The Blowdown
• ValuJet Crash
• Spring Opening
• Johnny Winter
• Space Station
• The Cult of War
• Ballerina with a Gun
• The Chemistry of Fire

In 1989, Laurence Gonzales was a young writer with his first book of essays, The Still Point, just published by the University of Arkansas Press. Imagine his surprise, one winter day, to receive a letter from none other than Kurt Vonnegut. 'The excellence of your writing and the depth of your reporting saddened me, in a way, ' Vonnegut wrote, 'reminding me yet again what a tiny voice facts and reason have in this era of wrap-around, mega-decibel rock-and-roll.' Several books, many articles, and a growing list of awards later, Gonzales -- known for taking us to enthralling extremes - is still writing with excellence and depth. In this latest collection, we go from the top of Mount Washington and 'the worst weather in the world, ' to 12,000 feet beneath the ocean, where a Naval Intelligence Officer discovers the Titanic using the government's own spy equipment. We experience night assaults with the 82nd Airborne Division, the dynamiting of the 100-foot snowpack on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, a trip to the International Space Station, the crash of an airliner to the bottom of the Everglades, and more.
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• The psychological perspective
• The biological perspective
• The contextual perspective.

• Introduction: I am the Risk? Who am I?
• The Neuropsychology of Risk Taking: Driving While Impaired by Alcohol
• The Assessment of Risk Preferences as an Estimation of Risk Propensity
• The Prototype Willingness Model: A Review
• Understanding & Preventing Pediatric Unintentional Injury: An Evidence-Based Model Outlining Factors that Influence Childrens Risk Taking
• Driving on the Edge: The Motivational Factors of Risk-Taking among Teen Drivers
• The Relationship Between Risk Taking & Contact Lens Use & Recommendations by Contact Lens Practitioners in Australia
• Sexting: A New & Emerging Behavior of Risk
• Evolutionary & Cultural Psychological Perspectives of Risk Taking
• Index.
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This book reviews the main contemporary dimensions in the study of the psychology of risk-taking. In an introduction, the Editor J P Assailly (IFSTTAR) proposes a synthesis on the interactions between the psychological, biological and environmental perspectives on risk-taking, risk perception and risk acceptance. In the genesis of risky decision-making, the authors analyse the dynamic self-regulatory processes, their neuropsychological underpinnings (the dysfunctions of executive functions control and the somatic marker framework /hyperactivity of the limbic system, and hypoactivity of the prefrontal cortex). To treat the consequences of this neuropsychological vulnerability, the authors propose to adapt interventions as brief motivational interviews and contingency management.
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Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol, whose father was killed in the Vietnam War, is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. She makes her living by tutoring high school students, engages in community activism, and sometimes supplements her income with gambling. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Edgework and the Risk Taking Experience Stephen Lyng
• Part 2: Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework 2. Sociology at the Edge: Social theory and voluntary risk taking Stephen Lyng 3. Edgework: A subjective and structural model of negotiating boundaries Dragan Milovanic
• Part 3: The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and aesthetics 4. The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and anarchy Jeff Ferrell 5. Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes David Courtney
• Part 4: Group Variations in Edgework Practices: Gender, age and class 6. Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework Jennifer Lois 7. Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency William J. Miller
• Part 5: Mainstreaming Edgework 8. Adventure Without Risk is Like Disneyland Lori Holyfield, Lillian Jonas and Anna Zajicek 9. Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents Charles W. Smith
• Part 6: Historicizing Edgework 10. Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian lawyers and mountaineers Jonathan Simon 11. On the Edge: Drugs and the consumption of risk in late modernity Gerda Reith
• Part 7: Edgework in the Academy 12. Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure Gideon Sjoberg 13. Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a bottom dog Mark S. Hamm.
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What do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.
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• Preface
• Am I Hurt or Injured? Assessing Adult Attitudes Toward Pain & Injury
• Statewide Variation in Personality Predicts Geographic Variation in Unintentional Injury Rates
• Emotional Risk-Taking in Intimate Relationships
• An Exploration of Chinese Undergraduate EFL Learners Language Class Risk-taking, Foreign Language
• Index.
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Risk-taking is viewed as an aspect of proneness to problem behavior and a maladaptive trait and the tendency to engage in behaviors whose outcome is uncertain and entails negative consequences. Though risk-taking behavior is likely to be harmful or dangerous, it can also be functional and goal-directed and play an important part in developmental tasks. According to cognitive psychologists, many factors such as decision-making, perceptions' gains and losses, expectations about the future and biases in risk perception affect a persons' risk-taking behavior in developmental tasks. This book provides new research in the psychology of risk taking.
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