Men more likely to take risks when stressed

According to a new research at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology, men under stress are more likely to take risks, correlating to such real-life behaviour as gambling, smoking, unsafe sex and illegal drug use.

Men seem to enter more risky financial situations than women, which was part of the impetus for our study. But only in the stressed condition did we see any statistical differences in risky behaviour between men and women.

The study has been published July 1 in the journal PLoS One.