E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude

As the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme have shown, individuals’ attitude towards ethical risks can a huge impact on society at large. In this paper, we compare risk-taking attitudes assessed with Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) survey individual e-mail networking patterns body language measured smartwatches. We find that communication signals such as network structure dynamics, content features well real-world behavioral through smartwatch heart rate, acceleration, mood state demonstrate strong correlation risk-preference in different domains of DOSPERT survey. For instance, found people higher degree centrality show likelihood to take social risks, while using expressing “you live only once” indicates lower willingness some domains. Our results analyzing human interaction organizational networks provides valuable information for decision makers managers support an increase behavior organization’s members.