Informing people about risk
| dc.contributor.author | Slovic, Paul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lichtenstein, Sarah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fischhoff, Baruch | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-24T21:15:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-24T21:15:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
| dc.description | 26 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 buttressed by empirical research aimed at determining what people know, what they want to know, and how best to convey that information. Drawing upon studies of risk perception, this paper describes some of the problems that any information program must confront. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis Program of the Nation Science Foundation, under Grant PRA79-11934 to Clark University under subcontract to Perceptronics, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B., & Lichtenstein, S. (1980). Informing people about risk. In L. A. Morris, M. B. Mazis, & I. Barofsky (Eds.), Product labeling and health risks (Banbury Report No. 6; pp. 165-181). Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/22515 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Health risks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Radiation hazards | en_US |
| dc.title | Informing people about risk | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |