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A data.frame containing responses to the General Risk Propensity Scale (GRiPS, Zhang, Highhouse & Nye, 2018) of 810 participants of Study 1 of Steiner and Frey (2020). The original data can be accessed via https://osf.io/kxp8t/.

Usage

GRiPS_raw

Format

A data.frame with 810 rows (participants) and 8 columns, one per GRiPS item. Each item is a self-report indicator of general risk propensity, labelled by a keyword from the item:

fun

(numeric) - Risk-taking makes life more fun.

friends

(numeric) - Friends would describe the respondent as a risk taker.

enjoy

(numeric) - Enjoyment of taking risks.

hurt

(numeric) - Willingness to take a risk even if it might hurt.

part

(numeric) - Risk-taking as an important part of life.

commonly

(numeric) - Commonly takes risks.

chances

(numeric) - Belief in taking chances.

attracted

(numeric) - Attracted, rather than scared, by risk.

Source

Zhang, D. C., Highhouse, S., & Nye, C. D. (2019). Development and validation of the general risk propensity scale (GRiPS). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32, 152–167. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2102

Steiner, M., & Frey, R. (2020). Representative design in psychological assessment: A case study using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). PsyArXiv Preprint. doi:10.31234/osf.io/dg4ks