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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 ...
Culture, Risk, and the Prospect of Genetically Modified Organisms as Viewed by Tāngata Whenua

Satterfield, Terre; Roberts, Mere; Henare, Mark; Finucane, Melissa; Benton, Richard; Henare, Manuka (Decision Research, 2005-05)

“Risk analysis is both a scientific and a political exercise. Ultimately the whole exercise is driven by values, which determine choices made even within science, and the choices made by decision-makers and by society ...
Improving quarantine risk communication: Understanding public risk perceptions

Finucane, Melissa (Decision Research, 2000-11)

Maintaining the health and wealth of Australia depends vitally on protecting the nation's environmental and cultural treasures while capitalizing on the opportunities presented by new technologies and products. Achieving ...
Mad cows, mad corn and mad communities: the role of socio-cultural factors in the perceived risk of genetically-modified food

Finucane, Melissa (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

The rapid globalization of the world economy has increased the need for a knowledge base of reliable socio-cultural differences in perceptions, values and ways of thinking about new food technologies. Awareness of ...
Whakapapa as a Mäori Mental Construct: Some Implications for the Debate over Genetic Modification of Organisms

Roberts, Mere; Haami, Brad; Benton, Richard; Satterfield, Terre; Finucane, Melissa; Henare, Mark; Henare, Manuka (University of Hawaii Press, 2004)

The use of whakapapa by New Zealand Maori is most commonly understood in reference to human descent lines and relationships, where it functions as a family tree or genealogy. But it also refers to an epistemological framework ...