Peter M Wiedemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 2228040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter M Wiedemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiedemann |
| SIGNATURE | WIEDEMANN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond concern
Be alarmed. Some reflections about the Covid-19 risk communication in Germany
2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article addresses six typical communication traps regarding COVID-19 which can also be observed with respect to other risk topics. First, we argue that risk communication can slide into what is known as 'risk kitsch'. This refers to the misconception that avoiding risk automatically results in safety. However, the avoidance of one risk always leads to other risks. Life without risk …
How far is how far enough? Safety perception and acceptance of extra-high-voltage power lines in Germany
The results of a 2 × 2 factorial online experiment are reported. The first factor refers to the information on precautionary measures and the second factor on the information regarding the share of EMF exposure from extra-high-voltage power lines compared to overall EMF exposure measured in-house. The study is based on a community sample of 440 subjects. Information on the share of EMF exposure from extra-high-voltage power lines at the in-house …
Affect-inducing risk communication
Affect appears to have a central role in peoples risk perception and decision-making. It is, therefore, important that researchers and communicators know how risk communication can induce affect or more specific emotions. In this paper, several studies that examined affect-inducing cues presented in and around risk communication are discussed. We thereby distinguish between integral affect induction, meaning through the risk message, and incident…
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Neue Technologien, deren Risikopotenziale noch im Dunkeln liegen, lösen oftmals Ängste und Befürchtungen aus. Ist das Vorsorgeprinzip geeignet, damit umzugehen? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich das vorli
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Looking for a safe haven after fancy thrills
Visitors’ risk perceptions have been found to influence the on‐site behaviour of tourists and their intention to return to a destination or to recommend it to others. The present study analyses the perception of tourism risks in the Tyrol, Austria. Building on the psychometric paradigm, participants (N = 207) assessed 15 vacation risks on nine risk characteristics that are derived from psychometric research and completed with characteristics rele…
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Informing the public about information and participation strategies in the siting of mobile communication base stations
Informing the public and ensuring their participation are considered important characteristics for a successful siting of mobile communication base stations. However, there is only sparse empirical evidence for this presumption. In particular, nothing is known about whether informing people that a siting decision is based on public information and participation activities has any positive effects. The experimental study presented here investigate…
Framing effects on risk perception of nanotechnology
How do people judge nanotechnology risks that are completely unfamiliar to them? Drawing on results of previous studies on framing and risk perception, two hypotheses about potential influences on nanotechnology risk perception were examined in an experimental study: 1) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced by its benefit perception. 2) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced by the context in which nanotechnology is embedded, s…
Beliefs and Emotionality in Risk Appraisals
Many technology debates are characterized by uncertainty in scientific knowledge and emotional discussions between different stakeholders. A considerable amount of information is provided by different stakeholders, emphasizing different views of a controversial subject. This includes, on the one hand, technology-critical information that consists of arguments underlining possible negative effects, such as terrifying diseases, foment fear and conc…
The Impacts of Precautionary Measures and the Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty on EMF Risk Perception and Trust
This study evaluates the impact on risk perception and trust in public health protection resulting from disclosure of information about implementation of precautionary measures and from the disclosure of scientific uncertainty in the area of mobile telephony. Based on an experimental design, the study supports our recent findings (Wiedemann and Schütz, 2005 Wiedemann, P. M. and Schütz, H. 2005. The precautionary principle and risk perception: Exp…
Application of early risk detection concepts and methods to environmental health. A German feasibility study
Early risk detection is essential for being able to address the most important environmental health risk-topics in a persistent and prospective manner. In support of the action programme “Environment and Health” (APUG) of the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security (BMGS) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) which recommended that a detection and evaluation system for the timely…
How to deal with dissent among experts. Risk evaluation of EMF in a scientific dialogue
This article describes the results of a scientific discourse which aimed at exploring the reasons for differences in expert health risk assessment of radio frequency electromagnetic fields of mobile telephony. It starts with describing the structure of the discourse. Then, the reasons for the conflicting risk assessments are discussed. Differences are due to the selection and evaluation of relevant scientific studies by applying different scienti…
The Social Amplification of Risk
The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading an…
Risk judgements and intuitive reasoning about the risks of genetically engineered products
The research reported in this paper investigates the reasoning (or arguments) 'behind' intuitive judgements on risks of genetically engineered products. Each participant of the study (N = 72) was asked to rate two products out of a list of 12 genetically engineered products (which were selected from two fields of application for genetic engineering: medicine and foodstuffs) with respect to its risks. The subjects were asked to describe the reason…
Risk management and sustainable development
Risk management and sustainable development are frameworks for studying and managing the environmental impacts of human actions; as such each requires indicators for monitoring, decision-making and communication. This paper compares the two frameworks as used in practice, and their experience of using indicators. Sustainable development is a systems-based concept with a long time horizon, a tendency to apply precaution in decisions, and a positiv…
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
Facing the greenhouse effect
Risikokontroversen
Technik und ihre Risiken. Der Einfluß der politischen Kultur in der alten und der neuen Bundesrepublik auf die Risikodebatte
Don't tell any stories
The Impacts of Precautionary Measures and the Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty on EMF Risk Perception and Trust
This study evaluates the impact on risk perception and trust in public health protection resulting from disclosure of information about implementation of precautionary measures and from the disclosure of scientific uncertainty in the area of mobile telephony. Based on an experimental design, the study supports our recent findings (Wiedemann and Schütz, 2005 Wiedemann, P. M. and Schütz, H. 2005. The precautionary principle and risk perception: Exp…
Affect-inducing risk communication
Affect appears to have a central role in peoples risk perception and decision-making. It is, therefore, important that researchers and communicators know how risk communication can induce affect or more specific emotions. In this paper, several studies that examined affect-inducing cues presented in and around risk communication are discussed. We thereby distinguish between integral affect induction, meaning through the risk message, and incident…
Be alarmed. Some reflections about the Covid-19 risk communication in Germany
2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article addresses six typical communication traps regarding COVID-19 which can also be observed with respect to other risk topics. First, we argue that risk communication can slide into what is known as 'risk kitsch'. This refers to the misconception that avoiding risk automatically results in safety. However, the avoidance of one risk always leads to other risks. Life without risk …
How to deal with dissent among experts. Risk evaluation of EMF in a scientific dialogue
This article describes the results of a scientific discourse which aimed at exploring the reasons for differences in expert health risk assessment of radio frequency electromagnetic fields of mobile telephony. It starts with describing the structure of the discourse. Then, the reasons for the conflicting risk assessments are discussed. Differences are due to the selection and evaluation of relevant scientific studies by applying different scienti…
Application of early risk detection concepts and methods to environmental health. A German feasibility study
Early risk detection is essential for being able to address the most important environmental health risk-topics in a persistent and prospective manner. In support of the action programme “Environment and Health” (APUG) of the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security (BMGS) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) which recommended that a detection and evaluation system for the timely…
Looking for a safe haven after fancy thrills
Visitors’ risk perceptions have been found to influence the on‐site behaviour of tourists and their intention to return to a destination or to recommend it to others. The present study analyses the perception of tourism risks in the Tyrol, Austria. Building on the psychometric paradigm, participants (N = 207) assessed 15 vacation risks on nine risk characteristics that are derived from psychometric research and completed with characteristics rele…
Risk management and sustainable development
Risk management and sustainable development are frameworks for studying and managing the environmental impacts of human actions; as such each requires indicators for monitoring, decision-making and communication. This paper compares the two frameworks as used in practice, and their experience of using indicators. Sustainable development is a systems-based concept with a long time horizon, a tendency to apply precaution in decisions, and a positiv…
Don't tell any stories
Don't tell any stories
Risikokontroversen
Technik und ihre Risiken. Der Einfluß der politischen Kultur in der alten und der neuen Bundesrepublik auf die Risikodebatte
Facing the greenhouse effect
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
Risk management and sustainable development
Risk management and sustainable development are frameworks for studying and managing the environmental impacts of human actions; as such each requires indicators for monitoring, decision-making and communication. This paper compares the two frameworks as used in practice, and their experience of using indicators. Sustainable development is a systems-based concept with a long time horizon, a tendency to apply precaution in decisions, and a positiv…
Risk judgements and intuitive reasoning about the risks of genetically engineered products
The research reported in this paper investigates the reasoning (or arguments) 'behind' intuitive judgements on risks of genetically engineered products. Each participant of the study (N = 72) was asked to rate two products out of a list of 12 genetically engineered products (which were selected from two fields of application for genetic engineering: medicine and foodstuffs) with respect to its risks. The subjects were asked to describe the reason…
The Social Amplification of Risk
The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading an…
Application of early risk detection concepts and methods to environmental health. A German feasibility study
Early risk detection is essential for being able to address the most important environmental health risk-topics in a persistent and prospective manner. In support of the action programme “Environment and Health” (APUG) of the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security (BMGS) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) which recommended that a detection and evaluation system for the timely…
How to deal with dissent among experts. Risk evaluation of EMF in a scientific dialogue
This article describes the results of a scientific discourse which aimed at exploring the reasons for differences in expert health risk assessment of radio frequency electromagnetic fields of mobile telephony. It starts with describing the structure of the discourse. Then, the reasons for the conflicting risk assessments are discussed. Differences are due to the selection and evaluation of relevant scientific studies by applying different scienti…
Beliefs and Emotionality in Risk Appraisals
Many technology debates are characterized by uncertainty in scientific knowledge and emotional discussions between different stakeholders. A considerable amount of information is provided by different stakeholders, emphasizing different views of a controversial subject. This includes, on the one hand, technology-critical information that consists of arguments underlining possible negative effects, such as terrifying diseases, foment fear and conc…
The Impacts of Precautionary Measures and the Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty on EMF Risk Perception and Trust
This study evaluates the impact on risk perception and trust in public health protection resulting from disclosure of information about implementation of precautionary measures and from the disclosure of scientific uncertainty in the area of mobile telephony. Based on an experimental design, the study supports our recent findings (Wiedemann and Schütz, 2005 Wiedemann, P. M. and Schütz, H. 2005. The precautionary principle and risk perception: Exp…
Informing the public about information and participation strategies in the siting of mobile communication base stations
Informing the public and ensuring their participation are considered important characteristics for a successful siting of mobile communication base stations. However, there is only sparse empirical evidence for this presumption. In particular, nothing is known about whether informing people that a siting decision is based on public information and participation activities has any positive effects. The experimental study presented here investigate…
Framing effects on risk perception of nanotechnology
How do people judge nanotechnology risks that are completely unfamiliar to them? Drawing on results of previous studies on framing and risk perception, two hypotheses about potential influences on nanotechnology risk perception were examined in an experimental study: 1) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced by its benefit perception. 2) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced by the context in which nanotechnology is embedded, s…
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Neue Technologien, deren Risikopotenziale noch im Dunkeln liegen, lösen oftmals Ängste und Befürchtungen aus. Ist das Vorsorgeprinzip geeignet, damit umzugehen? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich das vorli
Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikoängste
Looking for a safe haven after fancy thrills
Visitors’ risk perceptions have been found to influence the on‐site behaviour of tourists and their intention to return to a destination or to recommend it to others. The present study analyses the perception of tourism risks in the Tyrol, Austria. Building on the psychometric paradigm, participants (N = 207) assessed 15 vacation risks on nine risk characteristics that are derived from psychometric research and completed with characteristics rele…
Affect-inducing risk communication
Affect appears to have a central role in peoples risk perception and decision-making. It is, therefore, important that researchers and communicators know how risk communication can induce affect or more specific emotions. In this paper, several studies that examined affect-inducing cues presented in and around risk communication are discussed. We thereby distinguish between integral affect induction, meaning through the risk message, and incident…
How far is how far enough? Safety perception and acceptance of extra-high-voltage power lines in Germany
The results of a 2 × 2 factorial online experiment are reported. The first factor refers to the information on precautionary measures and the second factor on the information regarding the share of EMF exposure from extra-high-voltage power lines compared to overall EMF exposure measured in-house. The study is based on a community sample of 440 subjects. Information on the share of EMF exposure from extra-high-voltage power lines at the in-house …
Be alarmed. Some reflections about the Covid-19 risk communication in Germany
2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article addresses six typical communication traps regarding COVID-19 which can also be observed with respect to other risk topics. First, we argue that risk communication can slide into what is known as 'risk kitsch'. This refers to the misconception that avoiding risk automatically results in safety. However, the avoidance of one risk always leads to other risks. Life without risk …
Beyond concern
Risk Perception and Management (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Perception (8 works) · Risk analysis (engineering (8 works) · Risk perception (8 works) · Risk communication (7 works) · Risk assessment (5 works)