Facts and Fears
Understanding Perceived Risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20041370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Slovic (0000-0002-7473-6403, Decision Research), Baruch Fischhoff (0000-0002-3030-6874, Decision Research), Sarah Lichtenstein (Decision Research) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Pages | 181-216 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Societal Risk Assessment (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer US (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4899-0445-4_9 |
| OpenAlex | W35532289 |
| ISBN | 9781489904454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 212 |
| References cited | 17 |
Business · Perception · Political science · Risk management · Risk perception · Social risk · Voluntariness · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Law · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons
Eliciting public concerns about an emerging energy technology
Co-Producing (a Fearful) Anthropocene
Heterogeneous Risk Perceptions
Evaluating Determinants of Environmental Risk Perception for Risk Management in Contaminated Sites
Public Awareness and Risk Perceptions of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Law, Environment, and the “Nondismal” Social Sciences
Impact of the built environment on climate change risk perception and psychological distancing
Making science relevant to environmental policy
Stakeholder interactions and the development of functional foods
Affect-inducing risk communication
Risk Perception and Worry Related to Adolescents' Judgement of Three Types of Risk
Out of the Ashes
Expert and non-expert perceptions of ‘forever chemicals’
Dedicating Management to Cultural Processes
Adolescents’ Perceived Safety and Security in Public Space—A Swedish Focus Group Study with a Gender Perspective
Socially Amplified Risk
Conceptualizing Biorisk
The unresolved controversy over nuclear power
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Working environment and respiratory health
Rational Democracy, Deliberation, and Reality
Public perception of technological risk
Soziale Systeme und ihre ökologischen Selbstbeschreibungen
Food risk communication
Demand-side constraints on the introduction of new food technologies
The quality of food risk management in Europe
A longitudinal study of the health impacts of a petroleum refinery
Environmental health impact assessment
The value of being precise
Local and socio-political acceptance of wind farms in Germany
Facing Technological Risks
Ungdomars samtal kring risker i trafiken
Information Planning and the Geographical Context of Radiological Emergency Management
Absencing/presencing risk
Risk perception and social anthropology
Standard Bearers
Explaining the Identifiable Victim Effect
Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim
Print Media Coverage of Risk-Risk Tradeoffs Associated with West Nile Encephalitis and Pesticide Spraying
Media‐Related Fear
Short-Term Continuous Positive Air Pressure Treatment
Transformative Violence
Heuristics and Biases
Norm theory
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence
Gender Differences in Risk Assessment
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning
Individual differences in reasoning
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment
Support theory
The hot hand in basketball
Public Perceptions of Everyday Food Hazards
Demographic Influences on Risk Perceptions
A Causal Model Explaining the Perception and Acceptance of Gene Technology 1
Trust as a Determinant of Opposition to a High‐Level Radioactive Waste Repository
Representativeness Revisited
Between facts and values
Risk as feelings
Fear of cancer and knowledge of cancer
Risk ‐ two views
Risk and organizational behaviour
Fogging to combat dengue
Industrial air pollution in rural Kenya
Predicting Covid-19 exposure risk perception using machine learning
Communication and cultural distortion during crises
Comparison of between-Subjects and within-Subjects Designs in Assessing Perceptions of Risk
Gripped by fear”
Minimizing the negative impact of a planned hazardous waste facility on the surrounding communities
The antecedents of risk perception in the context of natural hazards
The role of popular discourse about climate change in disaster preparedness
Gender-based approach for assessing risk perception in a multi-hazard environment
Uso de personajes y metáforas en la gestión de la crisis sanitaria del Covid-19. Revisión de la comunicación de sanidad pública en España y México
Perception of environmental insurance risk vs. implementation of control measures in organizations managed according to ISO 14001
Risk and Crisis Communication about Invisible Hazards
Why we see risk differently
Exploring Household Preparedness for Volcanic Eruptions of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i
Parent Reports of Children’s Fright Reactions to News of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Keep me updated! Social support as a coping strategy to reduce the perceived threat caused by the cognitive availability of Covid-19 relevant information
Public Perceptions of Food Contamination Risks
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Politics, Personality, and Impulsivity Can Color People’s Perceptions of—and Responses to—Hurricane Threats of Varying Severity
Nudging to Reduce the Perceived Threat of Coronavirus and Stockpiling Intention
Differences in consumers' perceptions based on the description order/amount of benefit–risk information on foods
The association between young people's knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and their behaviour
Explaining risk regulation regimes
Consumer's trust-in-food-safety typology in Taiwan
Critical incidents and the perception of health risks
Danger from above? A quantitative study of perceptions of hazards from falling rockets in the Altai region of Siberia
Discourses of risk in lay accounts of microbiological safety and BSE
Critical incidents and invulnerability to risk
Quaking in their boots? Inaccurate perceptions of seismic hazard and public policy inaction
Crude Contempt
Participant‐focused analysis
Measuring and modelling risk in a naturalistic setting
Public perceptions of the dioxin incident in Irish pork
I don’t know my child’s asthma risk
Risk perception and support for security measures
Risk perception by industrial radiographers
Social Benefit versus Technological Risk
Knowing with certainty
Newspaper Coverage of Causes of Death
Judgment under Uncertainty
The Economics of Uncertainty
How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits
Cost benefit analysis and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Availability
| Unique citing works | 212 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,82 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2026 (45) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 175 |