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(1995)One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past two decades is the view that people's preferences are often constructed--not merely revealed--in the process of elicitation. This ...
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(1999)This final section considers what can be done to cope with stigma. Kunreuther and Slovic identify four strategies for coping with stigma. Walker, in a response to Kunreuther and Slovic, questions the assumption that society ...
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(Decision Research, 1989)A critical task often performed by decision makers is to make estimates of important points of fact. Previous research has suggested that decomposition of numerical estimation problems can result in improved estimation ...
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(1983)
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(Harvard Law School, 2006)What are the respective contributions of culture and rationality to risk perception? Do disagreements between lay persons and experts (and among members of both groups) originate in conflicting values, differing abilities ...
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(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 ...
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(Wiley, 1988)
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(John Hopkins University Press, 2012)Wildlife professionals can more effectively manage species and social-ecological systems by fully considering the role that humans play in every stage of the process. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management provides the ...
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(Earthscan Publications, 1974-01)The distress and disruption caused by extreme natural events has stimulated considerable interest in understanding and improving the decision-making processes that determine a manager's adjustment to natural hazards. ...
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(Ecological Society of America, 2006)The concept of adaptive management has, for many ecologists, become a foundation of effective environmental management for initiatives characterized by high levels of ecological uncertainty. Yet problems associated with ...
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(MDPI, 2016-09-09)How health is defined and assessed is a priority concern for Indigenous peoples due to considerable health risks faced from environmental impacts to homelands, and because what is “at risk” is often determined without ...
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(Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1974)Subjects compared pairs of students with respect to potential college GPA. Both students had scores on one common dimension (e.g., Englist skills) and a unique dimension (e.g., Quantitative Aptitude for Student A and Need ...
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(Decision Research, 1977)A series of three experiments investigated the effect of information about one possible cause of an event on inferences regarding another possible cause. Experiment 1 showed that the presence of a second possible cause ...
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(2004)Recent research finds that perceived risk is closely associated with race and gender. In surveys of the American public a subset of white males stand out for their uniformly low perceptions of environmental health risks, ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-08)Using five variants of the Asian Disease Problem, we dissected the risky-choice framing effect by requiring each participant to provide preference ratings for the full decision problem and also to provide attractiveness ...
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(American Economic Review, 1978)
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2012-05)Subjects who judged speed in a driving scenario overestimated how fast they could decelerate when speeding compared to when keeping within the speed limit (Svenson, 2009). The purpose of the present studies were to replicate ...
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(1996)1. Members of the British Toxicology Society participated in a survey to determine their attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions regarding risks from chemicals. Similar surveys had previously been conducted with toxicologists ...
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(Decision Research, 1986-04)Complex technical systems go through a series of stages in their evolution from a concept of how to meet a possible challenge to an operational version responding to real-world crises. The present analysis offers a ...
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