“…In particular, gender stereotypes about risk-taking characterize it as a typically masculine type of behavior (Bem, 1981;Morrongiello and Hogg, 2004;Yagil, 1998). Research shows that gender stereotypes -through gender role conformity -have an effect on self-reported injury risk behavior in sports (Cazenave, Le Scanff, and Woodman, 2003), in driving behavior (Özkan and Lajunen, 2006;Sibley and Harré, 2009), in pedestrian behavior (Granié, 2009) and in general risk-taking among preschool children and adolescents (Granié, 2010;Raithel, 2003). Furthermore, gender stereotypes seem to be more predictive of risky behavior than biological sex (Granié, 2009(Granié, , 2010Raithel, 2003).…”