Behavior
risk-taking
risk·tak·ing
Subclass of:
Behavior
Definitions related to risk-taking:
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(risk taking) Engagement in dangerous, risky, and potentially self-damaging activities, unnecessarily and without regard to consequences; lack of concern for one's limitations and denial of the reality of personal danger.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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