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(De Gruyter Open, 2014-02)In modern societies, many of the decisions ordinary people are expected to make are based on numerical information. As a reflection of this fact, the contributions in this issue treat decisions and judgments based on ...
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(Journal of Finance, 1972)
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(1994)Judgement of risk and judgments of benefit have been found to be inversely related. Activities or technologies that are judged high in risk tend to be judged low in benefit and vice-versa. In the present study, we examine ...
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(1978)What determines whether people will protect themselves against the severe losses that might arise from some low-probability hazard? What factors underlie the perception and acceptability of technological risks? The answers ...
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(Universidade de São Paulo, 2010)The essay contrasts the scientific approach to analyzing and making decisions about risk with the ways that ordinary people perceive and repsond to risk. It highlights the importance of trust as a determiner of perceived ...
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(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 ...
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Public perceptions of risk and acceptability of forest vegetation management alternatives in Ontario (Canadian Institute of Forestry, 1998-09)We examined public perceptions of risk and acceptability for 9 alternatives to controlling forest vegetation in Ontario (N = 2,301) in the fall of 1994. The proportion of respondents indicating whether an alternative ...
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(Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 1979)The management and regulation of high-risk technologies need to be based on an understanding of the ways in which people think about risk. Without such understanding, well-intended laws and policies may be ineffective, or ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2010-05-11)Expert judgments are a necessary part of environmental management. Typically, experts are defined by their qualifications, track record, professional standing, and experience. We outline the limitations of conventional ...
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(University of California, 1985)
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(Frontiers Media, 2016-11-30)We thank Hargis and Oppenheimer (2016) for their interesting commentary to our article (Bjälkebring et al., 2016). Age-related changes in decision making are indeed a relatively unexplored phenomenon especially when it ...
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(Decision Research, 2000-11-15)“Baby boomers” comprise a significant portion of the U.S. population, and the leading-edge of this group will begin retirement within a decade. These individuals, in the age range of 45 to 55 years, are currently at or ...
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(Journal of Experimental Psycholog, 1971)Subjects in 3 experiments chose their preferred bet from pairs of bets, and later bid for each bet separately. In each pair, one bet had· a higher probability ·of winning (P bet); the other offered more to win (S bet). ...
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(1987)Accidents, discoveries of pollution, safety violations, product tampering epi sodes and other "unfortunate events" occurring within complex industrial systems can be conceptualised as pebbles dropped in a pond. The impacts ...
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(1998)In the context of health, safety, and environmental decisions, the concept of risk involves value judgments that reflect much more than just the probability and consequences of the occurrence of an event. This article ...
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(1996)The challenges associated with siting new waste facilities revolve around perceptions of the health, safety and environmental risks by the different interested parties. This paper stresses the importance of establishing ...
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(1991)The present study is a cross-cultural comparison of risk perception. A psychometric approach has been followed in order to examine quantitative risk judgments of different hazards and the ratings of these same hazards on ...
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(1991)A representative of the Canadian public was interviewed to determine their attitudes and perceptions of the risks and benefits from prescription drugs. In general, prescription drugs, with the exception of sleeping pills, ...
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