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Slovic, Paul
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(Sage, 2023-09)In three studies, with samples from different countries (the United States and Israel) and religions (Christians and Jews), we found that individual levels of fear of death significantly predicted lower willingness to ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2022-11)People often choose the option that is better on the most subjectively prominent attribute — the prominence effect. We studied the effect of prominence in health care priority setting and hypothesized that values related to ...
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(1973-05-01)In my talk today, I am going to analyze the problems of adhering to policy from a psychological viewpoint. Some research will be described which indicates that we do indeed deviate from the policies we wish to follow. There ...
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(TEDxKakumaCamp, 2018-06-09)In 1994 I carefully followed the reports of the genocide occurring in Rwanda where some 800,000 people were murdered in about 100 days. I was shocked by the indifference of the American public to this terrible news and ...
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(Addictive Behaviors, 2018-05-24)Similar to cigarette smoking, consumption of cigars delivers nicotine and byproducts of tobacco combustion and elevates the risk of addiction, illness, and premature death. This study examined the relationship of affect, ...
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(Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2017-07-11)Zero is a special value in our daily lives, and previous research on how zero values affect decision making leaves many questions to be explored. The present research examined the zero effect in life-saving decisions and ...
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Vegetation Management in Ontario's Forests: Survey Research of Public and Professional Perspectives (Decision Research, 1995-08)
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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Sex differences in the risks a person selects for himself and the risks he selects for someone else (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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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Nuclear power and the public: A comparative study of risk perception in France and the United States (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 ...