Are You a Risk Taker? What causes people to take risks? It’s not just a behavior. It’s a personality. By Marvin Zuckerman, published on November 01, 2000 – last reviewed on July 17, 2012 Do you drink and drive, gamble, or sleep with strangers? It’s not just a behavior. It’s a personality.Rita lives for excitement. She dies of boredom when life becomes too predictable. She has a wide circle of friends but no tolerance for dullards. She likes meeting exciting new people, even if she knows that they are unreliable. She smokes tobacco and marijuana and drinks hard—and parties heavily on weekends with cocaine and Ecstasy, or any

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