Motivational determinants of risk-taking behavior
Atkinson, Psychological Review 64(6), 1957, 359-372. Model of achievement behaviour in which a tendency to approach success, built from the motive to achieve, the probability of success and its incentive value, is set against a tendency to avoid failure. In the author's later summary, strong achievers prefer tasks of middling difficulty and those driven by fear of failure lean towards very easy or very hard ones; the motive was first measured by self-reported unease in test situations.
Atkinson, Psychological Review 64(6), 1957, 359-372. Model of achievement behaviour in which a tendency to approach success, built from the motive to achieve, the probability of success and its incentive value, is set against a tendency to avoid failure. In the author's later summary, strong achievers prefer tasks of middling difficulty and those driven by fear of failure lean towards very easy or very hard ones; the motive was first measured by self-reported unease in test situations.
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Atkinson, J. W. (1957). Motivational determinants of risk-taking behavior. Psychological Review, 64(6, Pt.1), 359-372. doi:10.1037/h0043445 https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043445