Effect of Personality Trait and Risk Level on Generation and Intensity of Regret

Yaozhong Liu; Xiyong Cao; Min Liu

doi:10.4236/jss.2015.31006

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Effect of Personality Trait and Risk Level on Generation and Intensity of Regret ()

Yaozhong Liu, Xiyong Cao, Min Liu

Management School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jss.2015.31006 PDF HTML XML 2,395 Downloads 2,785 Views

Abstract

Our research explored the effect of personality trait and risk level to generation and intensity of regret. The results showed: 1) The main effect of the level of risk was significant. At high risk level, subjects generated higher frequency and intensity of regret than at low risk level. However, the main effect of personality trait was not significant; 2) Interaction of personality trait and risk level was significant. At high risk level, pessimistic subject generated higher intensity regret than at low risk level while the intensity of regret of optimistic subject did not show a significant difference at different risk levels

Keywords

Regret, Personality Trait, Risk Level, Risk Decision

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Liu, Y. , Cao, X. and Liu, M. (2015) Effect of Personality Trait and Risk Level on Generation and Intensity of Regret. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 45-49. doi: 10.4236/jss.2015.31006.

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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