Peter M Sandman
Biographic Data
| ID | 377448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter M Sandman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandman |
| SIGNATURE | SANDMAN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental Risk and the Press
Toxic spills, acid rain, poor air quality-scarcely a day goes by without a report in the press on an environmental risk issue. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Jersey, a leading state in the production of chemicals, and the state with the largest number of Superfund cleanup sites. How accurate and how extensive is environmental risk reporting in the New Jersey press, and what can be done to improve the quality of its coverage of environ…
Radon's Deadly Daughters
The Mad Cow Crisis
Responding to Community Outrage
A model of the precaution adoption process
Predicting Homeowners' Mitigation Responses to Radon Test Data
Radon gas can accumulate indoors to levels that present a serious lung cancer risk. Six data sets were examined to discover what homeowners do to cope with this hazard after they have tested for radon. The best predictors of mitigation intentions proved to be global appraisals of threat plus the radon levels themselves. Translating these intentions into action, however, seemed to reflect situational obstacles rather than beliefs about radon risk,…
Risk communication activities of state health agencies
Surveys concerning the risk communication practices and needs of state health agencies were completed by agency commissioners and designated staff of 48 states and territories. These data indicate that agencies are expending more effort on responding to requests for information than on initiating dialogues with interested constituencies or alerting the public to risk. The data also suggest a gap between the stated philosophy and practice of the a…
A Question of Quality
Kandice L. Salomone, Michael R. Greenberg, Peter M. Sandman, David B. Sachsman; A Question of Quality: How Journalists and News Sources Evaluate Coverage o
Promoting Remedial Response to the Risk of Radon
New Jersey residents who tested their homes for radon and found more than four picocuries per liter were surveyed (and a subsample interviewed) about their knowledge, emotions, attitudes, and intentions to take remedial action Respondents proved well informed, but radon levels were not highly correlated with any of the response variables. Overoptimism was more common than overreaction. The results suggest that active guidance is needed to ensure …
Optimistic biases in public perceptions of the risk from radon
Survey data were obtained from a random sample of 657 homeowners in New Jersey and also from 141 homeowners who had already monitored their homes for radon. People who had not tested tended to believe that they were less at risk than their neighbors, and they interpreted ambiguous predictors of home radon levels in ways that supported their beliefs of below-average risk. Residents who had already tested their homes were relatively accurate about …
Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon
Journal Article Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon Get access Peter M. Sandman, Peter M. Sandman 1Peter M. Sandman is Professor of Environmental Journalism at Rutgers University and Director of the Environmental Communication Research Program of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil D. Weinstein, Neil D. Weinstein 2Neil D. Weinstein is Associate …
Media
Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon
Journal Article Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon Get access Peter M. Sandman, Peter M. Sandman 1Peter M. Sandman is Professor of Environmental Journalism at Rutgers University and Director of the Environmental Communication Research Program of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil D. Weinstein, Neil D. Weinstein 2Neil D. Weinstein is Associate …
Optimistic biases in public perceptions of the risk from radon
Survey data were obtained from a random sample of 657 homeowners in New Jersey and also from 141 homeowners who had already monitored their homes for radon. People who had not tested tended to believe that they were less at risk than their neighbors, and they interpreted ambiguous predictors of home radon levels in ways that supported their beliefs of below-average risk. Residents who had already tested their homes were relatively accurate about …
Media
Promoting Remedial Response to the Risk of Radon
New Jersey residents who tested their homes for radon and found more than four picocuries per liter were surveyed (and a subsample interviewed) about their knowledge, emotions, attitudes, and intentions to take remedial action Respondents proved well informed, but radon levels were not highly correlated with any of the response variables. Overoptimism was more common than overreaction. The results suggest that active guidance is needed to ensure …
Predicting Homeowners' Mitigation Responses to Radon Test Data
Radon gas can accumulate indoors to levels that present a serious lung cancer risk. Six data sets were examined to discover what homeowners do to cope with this hazard after they have tested for radon. The best predictors of mitigation intentions proved to be global appraisals of threat plus the radon levels themselves. Translating these intentions into action, however, seemed to reflect situational obstacles rather than beliefs about radon risk,…
Media
Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon
Journal Article Public Response to the Risk from Geological Radon Get access Peter M. Sandman, Peter M. Sandman 1Peter M. Sandman is Professor of Environmental Journalism at Rutgers University and Director of the Environmental Communication Research Program of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil D. Weinstein, Neil D. Weinstein 2Neil D. Weinstein is Associate …
Optimistic biases in public perceptions of the risk from radon
Survey data were obtained from a random sample of 657 homeowners in New Jersey and also from 141 homeowners who had already monitored their homes for radon. People who had not tested tended to believe that they were less at risk than their neighbors, and they interpreted ambiguous predictors of home radon levels in ways that supported their beliefs of below-average risk. Residents who had already tested their homes were relatively accurate about …
Promoting Remedial Response to the Risk of Radon
New Jersey residents who tested their homes for radon and found more than four picocuries per liter were surveyed (and a subsample interviewed) about their knowledge, emotions, attitudes, and intentions to take remedial action Respondents proved well informed, but radon levels were not highly correlated with any of the response variables. Overoptimism was more common than overreaction. The results suggest that active guidance is needed to ensure …
A Question of Quality
Kandice L. Salomone, Michael R. Greenberg, Peter M. Sandman, David B. Sachsman; A Question of Quality: How Journalists and News Sources Evaluate Coverage o
Risk communication activities of state health agencies
Surveys concerning the risk communication practices and needs of state health agencies were completed by agency commissioners and designated staff of 48 states and territories. These data indicate that agencies are expending more effort on responding to requests for information than on initiating dialogues with interested constituencies or alerting the public to risk. The data also suggest a gap between the stated philosophy and practice of the a…
A model of the precaution adoption process
Predicting Homeowners' Mitigation Responses to Radon Test Data
Radon gas can accumulate indoors to levels that present a serious lung cancer risk. Six data sets were examined to discover what homeowners do to cope with this hazard after they have tested for radon. The best predictors of mitigation intentions proved to be global appraisals of threat plus the radon levels themselves. Translating these intentions into action, however, seemed to reflect situational obstacles rather than beliefs about radon risk,…
Responding to Community Outrage
The Mad Cow Crisis
Radon's Deadly Daughters
Environmental Risk and the Press
Toxic spills, acid rain, poor air quality-scarcely a day goes by without a report in the press on an environmental risk issue. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Jersey, a leading state in the production of chemicals, and the state with the largest number of Superfund cleanup sites. How accurate and how extensive is environmental risk reporting in the New Jersey press, and what can be done to improve the quality of its coverage of environ…
Risk Perception and Management (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Radon (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)