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Conference participation

Hendrik Sonnabend presented a current research project entitled ‘Positive Feedback Shapes Gender Gaps in Adolescent Risk-Taking - Causal Evidence from Real-Risk Competitions’ at the annual conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) in Tartu (Estonia). The study shows that boys and girls change their risk-taking tendencies to different degrees after successes, which may help to explain general gender differences in risk preference. Continue to the press release on the study