During a project review meeting, an executive scrutinizes the risk section, including risks on the watch list, and demands action to close them out. What is the executive's risk attitude?

Risk aversion is defined as a low tolerance for uncertainty; the executive's insistence on taking action to close out watch-list risks - which are typically low-priority items accepted as residual risk - reflects an unwillingness to accept any level of uncertainty on the project.

Risk seeking describes an attitude that welcomes risk and uncertainty in pursuit of potential gain, which is the opposite of demanding all risks be closed out.

Risk neutral describes a balanced attitude where decisions are made based on expected value without strong bias toward or against risk, not a demand to eliminate all risks regardless of priority.

Risk tolerant describes a high threshold for accepting risk, meaning the individual is comfortable with uncertainty, which directly contradicts the executive's demand for action on low-priority watch-list items.