Re: [xmca] Deferred Risk?

[Jennifer Vadeboncoeur <vadebonc@mail.ubc.ca>]

Andy, have you seen Cynthia Lightfoot's text, The culture of 
adolescent risk taking. I appreciate it because she foregrounds what 
actions that are considered risk taking mean to people. Maybe this is 
of interest? Best to you - jen



> Does anyone know of papers (or books) on the topic of the psychology 
> of deferred risk?
> By this I mean studies of how people perceive, for example, the 
> risks of actions they take now when it is common knowledge that 
> absolutely nothing bad will happen for a long time, but then the 
> result will be possibly fatal. Having unprotected sex with someone 
> who's probably got AIDS, for example, or maybe engaging in 
> fraudulent business practices, or taking up smoking. It's a bit like 
> the other side of deferred benefits, of working hard at school so 
> that you get a good job a decade later, of which Activity Theorists 
> have given a lot of attention. I am over the anthropological 
> literature, moral panics and so on, I am looking for something in 
> CHAT or general psychology.
>
> What do you think?
> Andy
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