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Sandeep Mishra

is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Hill/Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina.

Sandeep Mishra is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Hill/Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina. His research expertise is in the broad areas of judgment and decision-making, personality and individual differences, and evolutionary theory. Professor Mishra's research program is primarily focused on understanding decision-making under risk and uncertainty, including gambling.

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April 3, 2018

Tinbergen’s four questions and variance explained: Why business (and all behavioral science) needs evolutionary theory

Any behavioral science—including business—that does not acknowledge, understand, and utilize Tinbergen’s four evolutionary questions to guide research will simply be leaving variance left to be explained on the table, and will be fundamentally limited as a result.

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November 21, 2016

Going For It: When Risk Is Worth It, And When It’s Not

Throughout evolutionary history, humans have had to deal with risk. Risk-sensitivity theory offers an explanation about when some people take excessive risks, and why.

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