Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 00:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas. New research, to be published 1 July in the journal PLoS One, shows that men under stress may be more likely to take risks, correlating to such real-life behaviour as gambling, smoking, unsafe sex and illegal drug use...
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