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Risk Analysis, 2000
Risk perception is a phenomenon in search of an explanation. Several approaches are discussed in this paper. Technical risk estimates are sometimes a potent factor in accounting for perceived risk, but in many important applications it is not. Heuristics and biases, mainly availability, account for only a minor portion of risk perception, and media ...
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Risk perception is a phenomenon in search of an explanation. Several approaches are discussed in this paper. Technical risk estimates are sometimes a potent factor in accounting for perceived risk, but in many important applications it is not. Heuristics and biases, mainly availability, account for only a minor portion of risk perception, and media ...
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Toxicology Letters, 2004 Health and environmental scientists, professional risk managers and the general public strongly disagree about the seriousness of many risks. Most members of the public are concerned about long-term effects of risks, equity and fairness issues, lack of personal control, and the pace of technological diffusion into their cultural environment, whereas ...
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Psychological Reports, 1996
Research on perceptions of risk in Australia began only recently. Typically, data from other countries were used to determine what hazards might be considered most and least risky by the Australian public. Relying on overseas data is problematic, however, because cultural contexts may influence risk perceptions.
M L, Finucane, M T, Maybery
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Research on perceptions of risk in Australia began only recently. Typically, data from other countries were used to determine what hazards might be considered most and least risky by the Australian public. Relying on overseas data is problematic, however, because cultural contexts may influence risk perceptions.
M L, Finucane, M T, Maybery
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Health Physics, 1997
The study of people's perception and acceptability of risk is important in understanding the public reaction to technology and its environmental and health impact. The perception of risk depends on several factors, including early experiences, education, controllability of the risk, the type of consequence, and the type of person(s) who makes the ...
E K, Osei, G E, Amoh, C, Schandorf
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The study of people's perception and acceptability of risk is important in understanding the public reaction to technology and its environmental and health impact. The perception of risk depends on several factors, including early experiences, education, controllability of the risk, the type of consequence, and the type of person(s) who makes the ...
E K, Osei, G E, Amoh, C, Schandorf
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MRIs and the Perception of Risk
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2007The most important safety decision concerning MRIs was to change the name of the procedure. In the late 1970s, the procedure known as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) became magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of the negative connotations the word “nuclear” invited. Since then, the use of MRIs has flourished.
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Perceptions of risk and vulnerability
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2002Adolescents are typically viewed as being unable to judge risk appropriately and as having strong beliefs in their invulnerability to harm. The question of adolescents competence has emerged as a result of efforts to regulate the legal rights of adolescents to make decisions in the realms of medical and mental health treatment.
Susan G, Millstein +1 more
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Risk Perception and Movies: A Study of Availability as a Factor in Risk Perception
Risk Analysis, 2009Media effects on risk perception have often been explained by Tversky and Kahneman's availability principle, but research has not consistently supported it. What seem like media effects based on availability may be effects of new information. In an experimental study, entertainment movies depicting dramatic risk events were shown.
Lennart, Sjöberg, Elisabeth, Engelberg
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On risk: perception and direction
Computers & Security, 2004The idea of risk permeates the information security field. We use terms like ''risk management'', ''risk assessment'', ''risk model'' and ''risk analysis'' every day, and those topics are themselves the subject of countless papers and articles in security journals and magazines. But has the concept of risk become so ingrained within our profession that
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Risk perceptions and their relation to risk behavior
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2004Because risk perceptions can affect protective behavior and protective behavior can affect risk perceptions, the relations between these 2 constructs are complex and incorrect tests often lead to invalid conclusions.To discuss and carry out appropriate tests of 3 easily confused hypotheses: (a).
Noel T, Brewer +3 more
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