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"Improving" risk communication and risk management: Legislated solutions or legislated disasters?

Slovic, Paul; Johnson, Branden B. (1994)

Recently Congress has been moving to enact legislation that enhances the role of risk analysis in policy-making. The various risk-benefit analyses, risk comparisons, and risk characterizations mandated by the bills under ...
Presenting uncertainty in health risk assessment: Initial studies of its effects on risk perception and trust

Slovic, Paul; Johnson, Branden B. (1995)

Some analysts suggest that discussing uncertainties in health risk assessments might reduce citizens' perceptions of risk and increase their respect for the risk-assessing agency. We tested this assumption with simulated ...
Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?

Dieckmann, Nathan, F; Johnson, Branden B.; Gregory, Robin; Mayorga, Marcus; Han, Paul, KJ; Slovic, Paul (2015-11-04)

Expert disputes can present laypeople with several challenges including trying to understand why such disputes occur. In an online survey of the U.S. public, we used a psychometric approach to elicit perceptions of expert ...