Wibecke Brun
Biographic Data
| ID | 1609210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wibecke Brun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wibecke |
| FAMILY NAME | Brun |
| SIGNATURE | BRUN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Backpackers and mainstreamers
Are East Asian tourists more apprehensive about food risks
The expectation that ‘food risk abroad is higher than at home’ was explored in domestic and international tourists in China. Food risks at home were lowest, risks for ‘the trip you are on now’ second lowest, and risks abroad highest, an effect that we label the ‘home is safer than abroad heuristic’. Absolute levels of food risks were higher in the present sample compared to earlier European samples. Chinese domestic respondents scored higher on r…
What tourists worry about – Construction of a scale measuring tourist worries
Subjective food-risk judgements in tourists
Risk as feelings or risk and feelings? A cross‐lagged panel analysis
This article focuses on affective and cognitive processes underlying the perception of risk. A limitation with most process models of affect/cognition is that they include only concurrent emotions. By following a group (n = 129) of military sailors prospectively during an international operation, we explored longitudinal relations between perceived risk and related feelings. The risk‐relevant variables were embedded in a larger questionnaire aime…
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Two studies were undertaken to investigate risk perception in a military context. A questionnaire elicited cadets’ (n = 136) ratings of three categories of critical incidents (threats, constraints, and suffering among civilians) on nine qualitative risk dimensions adapted from the ‘Psychometric risk paradigm’ along with perceived personal risk, general risk, security and anticipated anxiousness. Factor analyses of average responses to the nine di…
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Verbal probabilities: A question of frame
Verbal expressions of probability and uncertainty are of two kinds: positive (‘probable’, ‘possible’) and negative (‘not certain’, ‘doubtful’). Choice of term has implications for predictions and decisions. The present studies show that positive phrases are rated to be more optimistic (when the target outcome is positive), and more correct, when the target outcome actually occurs, even in cases where positive and negative phrases are perceived to…
Ambiguous probabilities: When doesp=0.3 reflect a possibility, and when does it express a doubt
Verbal phrases denoting uncertainty are usually held to be more vague than numerical probability statements. They are, however, directionally more precise, in the sense that they are either positive, suggesting the occurrence of a target outcome, or negative, drawing attention to its non-occurrence. A numerical probability will, in contrast, sometimes be perceived as positive and sometimes as negative. When asked to complete sentences such as ‘Th…
Judgments of risk and probability: The role of frequentistic information
Risks and probabilities are often normatively defined in terms of the relative frequency of a target outcome. Psychological studies have shown that people are skilled in processing frequency information. Despite this, they often form discrepant estimates of probabilities and risks. The present paper traces this discrepancy to the perceived relevance of frequency information. In Study 1, student participants were asked to produce arguments for or …
Cognitive components in risk perception: Natural versus manmade risks
In a questionnaire study 106 Norwegian students rated natural and manmade hazards according to risk magnitude and public versus private responsibility for risk management. Another group of 50 subjects judged 36 natural hazards on nine risk dimensions used in previous psychometric studies of ‘manmade risks’. When ratings on nine risk characteristics for natural hazards were factor analyzed a three‐dimensional solution was found, with one active/pa…
Prediction and postdiction preferences in guessing
In three studies, it is shown that most subjects when asked to guess the outcome of an uncertain event (a die toss, the sex of a child, the winner of a match) will prefer to do so before the event. This holds regardless of consequences of the guess, or of variations in waiting time from the guess being made to the outcome being known. In a chance situation, a guess‐first preference may be partly explained by a ‘magical control’ hypothesis, but th…
Societal risks as seen by a Norwegian public
In two studies, questionnaires originally developed to study risk perception in the United States were administered to Norwegian students. Level of perceived risk in Norway was clearly below American scores for most hazards, but slightly above what has been found in a parallel Hungarian study. Norwegians were more concerned than both Hungarians and Americans about narcotics, but less than Americans about chemicals used in food and agriculture, an…
What tourists worry about – Construction of a scale measuring tourist worries
Societal risks as seen by a Norwegian public
In two studies, questionnaires originally developed to study risk perception in the United States were administered to Norwegian students. Level of perceived risk in Norway was clearly below American scores for most hazards, but slightly above what has been found in a parallel Hungarian study. Norwegians were more concerned than both Hungarians and Americans about narcotics, but less than Americans about chemicals used in food and agriculture, an…
Cognitive components in risk perception: Natural versus manmade risks
In a questionnaire study 106 Norwegian students rated natural and manmade hazards according to risk magnitude and public versus private responsibility for risk management. Another group of 50 subjects judged 36 natural hazards on nine risk dimensions used in previous psychometric studies of ‘manmade risks’. When ratings on nine risk characteristics for natural hazards were factor analyzed a three‐dimensional solution was found, with one active/pa…
Backpackers and mainstreamers
Prediction and postdiction preferences in guessing
In three studies, it is shown that most subjects when asked to guess the outcome of an uncertain event (a die toss, the sex of a child, the winner of a match) will prefer to do so before the event. This holds regardless of consequences of the guess, or of variations in waiting time from the guess being made to the outcome being known. In a chance situation, a guess‐first preference may be partly explained by a ‘magical control’ hypothesis, but th…
Subjective food-risk judgements in tourists
Verbal probabilities: A question of frame
Verbal expressions of probability and uncertainty are of two kinds: positive (‘probable’, ‘possible’) and negative (‘not certain’, ‘doubtful’). Choice of term has implications for predictions and decisions. The present studies show that positive phrases are rated to be more optimistic (when the target outcome is positive), and more correct, when the target outcome actually occurs, even in cases where positive and negative phrases are perceived to…
Risk as feelings or risk and feelings? A cross‐lagged panel analysis
This article focuses on affective and cognitive processes underlying the perception of risk. A limitation with most process models of affect/cognition is that they include only concurrent emotions. By following a group (n = 129) of military sailors prospectively during an international operation, we explored longitudinal relations between perceived risk and related feelings. The risk‐relevant variables were embedded in a larger questionnaire aime…
Are East Asian tourists more apprehensive about food risks
The expectation that ‘food risk abroad is higher than at home’ was explored in domestic and international tourists in China. Food risks at home were lowest, risks for ‘the trip you are on now’ second lowest, and risks abroad highest, an effect that we label the ‘home is safer than abroad heuristic’. Absolute levels of food risks were higher in the present sample compared to earlier European samples. Chinese domestic respondents scored higher on r…
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Two studies were undertaken to investigate risk perception in a military context. A questionnaire elicited cadets’ (n = 136) ratings of three categories of critical incidents (threats, constraints, and suffering among civilians) on nine qualitative risk dimensions adapted from the ‘Psychometric risk paradigm’ along with perceived personal risk, general risk, security and anticipated anxiousness. Factor analyses of average responses to the nine di…
Societal risks as seen by a Norwegian public
In two studies, questionnaires originally developed to study risk perception in the United States were administered to Norwegian students. Level of perceived risk in Norway was clearly below American scores for most hazards, but slightly above what has been found in a parallel Hungarian study. Norwegians were more concerned than both Hungarians and Americans about narcotics, but less than Americans about chemicals used in food and agriculture, an…
Prediction and postdiction preferences in guessing
In three studies, it is shown that most subjects when asked to guess the outcome of an uncertain event (a die toss, the sex of a child, the winner of a match) will prefer to do so before the event. This holds regardless of consequences of the guess, or of variations in waiting time from the guess being made to the outcome being known. In a chance situation, a guess‐first preference may be partly explained by a ‘magical control’ hypothesis, but th…
Cognitive components in risk perception: Natural versus manmade risks
In a questionnaire study 106 Norwegian students rated natural and manmade hazards according to risk magnitude and public versus private responsibility for risk management. Another group of 50 subjects judged 36 natural hazards on nine risk dimensions used in previous psychometric studies of ‘manmade risks’. When ratings on nine risk characteristics for natural hazards were factor analyzed a three‐dimensional solution was found, with one active/pa…
Judgments of risk and probability: The role of frequentistic information
Risks and probabilities are often normatively defined in terms of the relative frequency of a target outcome. Psychological studies have shown that people are skilled in processing frequency information. Despite this, they often form discrepant estimates of probabilities and risks. The present paper traces this discrepancy to the perceived relevance of frequency information. In Study 1, student participants were asked to produce arguments for or …
Ambiguous probabilities: When doesp=0.3 reflect a possibility, and when does it express a doubt
Verbal phrases denoting uncertainty are usually held to be more vague than numerical probability statements. They are, however, directionally more precise, in the sense that they are either positive, suggesting the occurrence of a target outcome, or negative, drawing attention to its non-occurrence. A numerical probability will, in contrast, sometimes be perceived as positive and sometimes as negative. When asked to complete sentences such as ‘Th…
Verbal probabilities: A question of frame
Verbal expressions of probability and uncertainty are of two kinds: positive (‘probable’, ‘possible’) and negative (‘not certain’, ‘doubtful’). Choice of term has implications for predictions and decisions. The present studies show that positive phrases are rated to be more optimistic (when the target outcome is positive), and more correct, when the target outcome actually occurs, even in cases where positive and negative phrases are perceived to…
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Two studies were undertaken to investigate risk perception in a military context. A questionnaire elicited cadets’ (n = 136) ratings of three categories of critical incidents (threats, constraints, and suffering among civilians) on nine qualitative risk dimensions adapted from the ‘Psychometric risk paradigm’ along with perceived personal risk, general risk, security and anticipated anxiousness. Factor analyses of average responses to the nine di…
Risk as feelings or risk and feelings? A cross‐lagged panel analysis
This article focuses on affective and cognitive processes underlying the perception of risk. A limitation with most process models of affect/cognition is that they include only concurrent emotions. By following a group (n = 129) of military sailors prospectively during an international operation, we explored longitudinal relations between perceived risk and related feelings. The risk‐relevant variables were embedded in a larger questionnaire aime…
Subjective food-risk judgements in tourists
What tourists worry about – Construction of a scale measuring tourist worries
Backpackers and mainstreamers
Are East Asian tourists more apprehensive about food risks
The expectation that ‘food risk abroad is higher than at home’ was explored in domestic and international tourists in China. Food risks at home were lowest, risks for ‘the trip you are on now’ second lowest, and risks abroad highest, an effect that we label the ‘home is safer than abroad heuristic’. Absolute levels of food risks were higher in the present sample compared to earlier European samples. Chinese domestic respondents scored higher on r…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Risk Perception and Management (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Risk perception (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (5 works) · Economics (5 works)