• Under pressure: conservation choices and the threat of species extinction 

  Gregory, Robin; Kozak, Robert; Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume; Nawaz, Sara; Satterfield, Terre; Hagerman, Shannon (Springer Nature B.V., 2021-05-03)

  Shifts in species ranges and viability introduced by climate change are creating difficult challenges for scientists and citizens. In many cases, the seriousness of threats to endangered species is forcing policy makers ...
• Characterizing public perceptions of social and cultural impacts in policy decisions 

  Dieckmann, Nathan F.; Gregory, Robin; Satterfield, Terre; Mayorga, Marcus; Slovic, Paul (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021-04-22)

  Social scientists and community advocates have expressed con- cerns that many social and cultural impacts important to citizens are given insufficient weight by decision makers in public policy decision-making. In two large ...
• People who are bad with numbers often find it harder to make ends meet – even if they are not poor 

  Bruine de Bruin, Wandi; Slovic, Paul (The Conversation, 2021-12-20)

  People who are bad with numbers are more likely to experience financial difficulties than people who are good with numbers. That’s according to our analyses of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll. In this World ...
• Low Numeracy is Associated with Poor Financial Well-being Around the World 

  Slovic, Paul; Bruine de Bruin, Wandi (PLOS, 2021-11-22)

  Numeracy refers to the ability to use numbers, including converting percentages (e.g., 10%) into absolute frequencies (e.g., 1 in 10). Studies have suggested that numeracy is correlated to financial outcomes, suggesting ...
• Norm Avoiders: The Effect of Optional Descriptive Norms on Charitable Donations 

  Andersson, Per A.; Erlandsson, Arvid; Västfjäll, Daniel (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2021-03-01)

  Knowing the descriptive norm concerning others' prosociality could affect your behavior, but would you seek out or avoid such knowledge? This high-powered preregistered experiment explores the effect of both forced and ...
• Decision Making in Wildlife Management 

  Riley, Shawn J.; Gregory, Robin S. (John Hopkins University Press, 2012)

  Wildlife professionals can more effectively manage species and social-ecological systems by fully considering the role that humans play in every stage of the process. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management provides the ...
• When lives are in your hands: Dilemmas of the societal decision maker 

  Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Slovic, Paul; Wagenaar, Willem A. (1990)

  A Societal Decision Maker (SDM) is a person who makes risky decisions on behalf of others. Most of the time, such decisions should be based on the wishes and beliefs pf the affected people. This paper explores a few cases ...
• Perceived Risk, Trust, and Nuclear Waste: Lessons from Yucca Mountain 

  Slovic, Paul; Layman, Mark; Flynn, James (1993)
• Perceived Risk and Attitudes Toward Nuclear Wastes: National and Nevada Perspectives 

  Slovic, Paul; Rosa, Eugene A.; Kunreuther, Howard; Desvousges, William H. (1993)
• Affect, Risk, and Decision Making 

  Slovic, Paul; Peters, Ellen; Finucane, Melissa; MacGregor, Donald G. (2005)

  Risk is perceived and acted on in 2 fundamental ways. Risk as feelings refers to individuals' fast, instinctive, and intuitive reactions to danger. Risk as analysis brings logic, reason, and scientific deliberation to bear ...
• Judged frequency of lethal events 

  Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch; Layman, Mark; Combs, Barbara (1978)

  A series of experiments studied how people judge the frequency of death from various causes. The judgments exhibited a highly consistent but systematically biased subjective scale of frequency. Two kinds of bias were ...
• Sex differences in the risks a person selects for himself and the risks he selects for someone else 

  Slovic, Paul; Weinstein, Malcolm S.; Lichtenstein, Sarah (1967)

  102 undergraduates, working in pairs, selected bets for themselves and bets for the "other subject" to play. It was found that persons chose essentially the same probability of winning for the other person as for themselves, ...
• The psychometric study of risk perception 

  Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah (1986)
• Only new laws will spur seat-belt use [Editorial] 

  Slovic, Paul (1985)
• Images of disaster: Perception and acceptance of risks from nuclear power 

  Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch (1979)
• Informing people about risk 

  Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch (1980)

  Designers of programs for informing the public about radiation hazards need to consider the difficulties inherent in communicating highly technical information about risk. To be effective, information campaigns must be ...
• Cue-How safe is safe enough? 

  Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch (1983)
• Perceptions and acceptance of risk from radiation exposure in space flight 

  Slovic, Paul (1997)

  There are a number of factors that influence how a person views a particular risk. These include whether the risk is judged to be voluntary and/or controllable, whether the effects are immediate or delayed, and the magnitude ...
• Nuclear power and the public: A comparative study of risk perception in France and the United States 

  Slovic, Paul; Flynn, James; Poumadere, M.; Mays, C. (2000)

  This study is an attempt to understand attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors with respect to nuclear power and several other technological risk sources. A unique feature of the study is a comparison between public views ...
• Health-risk perception in Canada 

  Slovic, Paul; Flynn, James; Mertz, C. K.; Mullican, L. (1993)

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