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Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation

Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul; Braman, Donald; Gastil, John; Cohen, Geoffrey (Yale Law School, 2007-03)

Despite knowing little about nanotechnology (so to speak), members of the public readily form opinions on whether its potential risks outweigh its potential benefits. On what basis are they forming their judgments? How ...
Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul; Braman, Donald; Gastil, John (Harvard Law School, 2006-01-01)
The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of—and Making Progress In— the American Culture War of Fact

Kahan, Dan; Gastil, John; Braman, Donald; Cohen, Geoffrey; Slovic, Paul (Yale Law School, 2007-10)

Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change

Kahan, Dan; Peters, Ellen; Braman, Donald; Slovic, Paul; Wittlin, Maggie; Larrimore Ouellette, Lisa; Mandel, Gregory (Yale Law School, 2011)

The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and ...