Cross-cultural differences in attitudes toward compulsory and voluntary quarantine : risk preference and motivation.

The Cushion hypothesis proposed by Weber and Hsee (1998) suggests that people from individualistic cultures are more risk adverse than their counterparts from collectivistic cultures. In this study, risk preference was examined in the context of quarantine. Results from this study yielded no support...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tho, Kai Ying.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44801