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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 ...
  • "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 ...
  • Intuitive toxicology: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks 
    Slovic, Paul; Malmfors, Torbjorn; Neil, Nancy (1992)
    Human beings have always been intuitive toxicologists, relying on their senses of sight, taste, and smell to detect harmful or unsafe food, water, and air. As we have come to recognize that our senses are not adequate to ...
  • Perceived risk, trust, and democracy 
    Slovic, Paul (1993)
    Risk management has become increasingly politicized and contentious. Polarized views, controversy, and overt conflict have become pervasive. Risk-perception research has recently begun to provide a new perspective on this ...
  • Perceived risk: Psychological factors and social implications 
    Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah (The Royal Society, 1981)
    Subjective judgments, whether by experts or lay people, are a major component in any risk assessment. If such judgments are faulty, risk management efforts are likely to be misdirected. This paper begins with an analysis ...
  • Understanding Public Reaction to Risk Analysis 
    MacGregor, Donald G. (Decision Research, 1984-12)

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