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Risk accompanies existence from its very beginning; indeed we know from studies of newborn animals and humans that every individual is confronted from birth with the necessity of satisfying two contradictory needs; the search for security, expressed particularly by all forms of attachment behavior aiming to maintain a certain proximity with the maternal organism or its substitute, and the search for stimulation, expressed particularly by the exploration of environment, exploration which constitutes a source of risk. Risk is therefore inscribed, like security, in the very dynamic of development. This initial and fundamental ambivalence (the search for and avoidance of risk), continues and manifests itself at different ages and in diverse spheres of existence.
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Assailly, JP. (1994). The Psychogenetic Approach to Risk. In: Munier, B., Machina, M.J. (eds) Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2298-8_1
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