Why Do Some People Take More Risks?

You decide to do something dangerous or stupid, and somewhere in your mind you know it’s risky, but you do it anyway. But why? Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... http://www.berndfigner.org/papers/Gla... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu/d... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1de4... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/7... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b5b5... Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...