• Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) 

  Woken, David (Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society, 2014)

• Latino History Is Oregon History: Preserving Oregon’s Latino Heritage through the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste Archive 

  de la Cruz, Sonia, Stephanie, David Kays, Woken (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, 2016)

  Since the spring of 2011, the University of Oregon Libraries have been working closely with the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers United, PCUN) to organize, preserve, and ...

• Judged frequency of lethal events 

  Slovic, Paul; Sarah, Lichtenstein; Fischhoff, Baruch; Layman, Mark; Combs, Barbara (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 ...

• Sex differences in the risks a person selects for himself and the risks he selects for someone else 

  Slovic, Paul; Weinstein, Malcolm S.; Lichtenstein, Sarah (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, ...

• The psychometric study of risk perception 

  Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah (1986)

• Only new laws will spur seat-belt use [Editorial] 

  Slovic, Paul (1985)

• Images of disaster: Perception and acceptance of risks from nuclear power 

  Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch (1979)

• Informing people about risk 

  Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch (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 ...

• Cue-How safe is safe enough? 

  Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch (1983)

• Perceptions and acceptance of risk from radiation exposure in space flight 

  Slovic, Paul (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 ...

• Nuclear power and the public: A comparative study of risk perception in France and the United States 

  Slovic, Paul; Flynn, J.; Poumadere, M.; Mays, C. (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 ...

• Health-risk perception in Canada 

  Slovic, Paul; Flynn, J.; Mertz, C. K.; Mullican, L. (1993)

• Perception of risk: Reflections on the psychometric paradigm 

  Slovic, Paul (1992)

• The Role of Affect and Worldviews as Orienting Dispositions in the Perception and Acceptance of Nuclear Power 

  Peters, Ellen; Slovic, Paul (1996)

  Recent research in risk perception has examined the role of affect and worldviews as orienting dispositions that guide people's decisions about complex and risky topics such as nuclear energy. This study tests and supports ...

• Probability, danger, and coercion: A study of risk perception and decision making in mental health law 

  Slovic, Paul; Monahan, John (1995)

  Young adults were shown hypothetical stimulus vignettes describing mental patients and were asked to judge a) the probability that the patient would harm someone else, b) whether or not the patient should be categorized ...

• The Adoption History Project 

  Herman, Ellen (University of Oregon, 2003-06)

  Adoption is a significant public and private issue. This site is based on the conviction that history is an indispensable resource for understanding the personal, political, legal, social, scientific, and human dimensions ...

• The impact and acceptability of Canadian-style cigarette warning labels among U.S. smokers and nonsmokers 

  Peters, Ellen; Romer, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall; Wharfield, Leisha M.; Mertz, C. K.; Carpenter, Stephanie M. (2007)

• Discrimination, vulnerability, and justice in the face of risk 

  Satterfield, Theresa A.; Mertz, C.K.; Slovic, Paul (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, ...

• Coping with stigma: Challenges & opportunities 

  Kunreuther, Howard; Slovic, Paul (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 ...

• Perceptions of ecological risk from natural hazards 

  Axelrod, Lawrence J.; McDaniels, Timothy; Slovic, Paul (1999)

  This study examines lay perceptions of ecological risk (risk to the health and productivity of natural environments) associated with natural hazards. Ratings of 30 specific characteristics influencing risk judgments and ...

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