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  • The risk game 
    Slovic, Paul (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 ...
  • Risk perception and trust: Challenges for facility siting 
    Slovic, Paul; Kunreuther, Howard; MacGregor, Donald G. (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 ...
  • Risk perception in Poland: A comparison with three other countries 
    Goszczynska, Maryla; Tyszka, Tadeusz; Slovic, Paul (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 ...
  • Risk Perception of Prescription Drugs: Report on a Survey in Canada 
    Slovic, Paul; Kraus, Nancy; Lappe, Henner; Major, Marilyn (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, ...
  • Risk Perception of Prescription Drugs: Report on a Survey in Sweden 
    Slovic, Paul; Kraus, Nancy; Lappe, Henner; Letzel, Heintz; Malmfors, Torbjorn (1989)
  • Risk perception, trust, and nuclear waste: Lessons from Yucca Mountain 
    Slovic, Paul; Layman, Mark; Flynn, James (1991-06-23)
  • The River's People 
    Thompson, Jessica (University of Oregon, Environmental Leadership Program, 2006)
    According to archeological evidence, the Kalapuya, the Willamette valley's first inhabitants, came to the area at least 10,000 years ago. (Mackey, 2004) However, according to Carol Logan, a Kalapuya with ancestral roots ...
  • Rock Band Checkout 
    Nesselroad, Lara; Zeidman-Karpinski, Annie (2008-04-17)
  • Rock-Paper-Scissors; A New and Elegant Proof 
    Nouweland, Anne van den (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2007-09-12)
    I provide an elegant proof identifying the unique mixed Nash equilibrium of the Rock-Paper-Scissors game. The proof is based on intuition rather than elimination of cases. It shows that for any mixed strategy other than ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Role of Life Experiences on Perceptions of Leisure During Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis 
    Janke, Megan C.; Carpenter, Gaylene; Payne, Laura L.; Stockard, Jean (Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
    This study examined the life experiences of adults and their effect on perceptions of leisure. Data for this study came from A Study of Leisure during Adulthood (ASOLDA), a 10-year study of the values, attitudes, and ...
  • The Roles of Time and Change in Situations 
    Mroczek, Daniel K.; Condon, Daniel M. (SAGE Publications, 2015-06-24)
    Rauthmann, Sherman and Funder have made a landmark contribution to situation research in the target article of this issue. However, we propose that their work overlooks the need to incorporate a developmental perspective. ...
  • Running head: COLLECTING LIFE NARRATIVE DATACapturing the stories of our lives: Examining the collection of life narrative data 
    Guo, Jen; Weston, Sara J.; Condon, David M. (PsyArXiv, 2018-01-21)
    Objective: Do different methods for collecting life narratives – the integrated, autobiographical construction of the past and imagined future – produce similar lexical features and relationships to personality traits? The ...
  • Russian Poetry at the End of the Soviet Empire 
    Akhmetev, Ivan (University of Oregon, 2014-10-03)
    Akhmetev explores the phenomenon of "deep underground" authors whose work was suppressed by the government because of the nontraditional nature of the form and ideas of their poetry.
  • The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman 
    Merskin, Debra (Howard Journal of Communications, 2010)
    What’s in a name? Plenty when it comes to the ability of words to establish identity. In 2005 in Oregon, for example, 142 land features carried the name ‘‘squaw’’—Squaw Gulch, Squaw Butte, Squaw Meadows, and Squaw Flat ...
  • S2 Intersite Environmental Transients Investigation 
    Schofield, Robert (2003-11)
  • S4 Environmental Disturbances 
    Schofield, Robert; Worden, John; McCarthy, Richard; Cook, Doug; Radkins, Hugh; Dalrymple, Josh (2005-03)
  • Sallust and the Greek Historical Tradition 
    Nicols, John (Regina Books, Claremont, California, 1999)
    The Roman historian Sallust was very familiar with Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. The argument of this article is that Saullust revealed his erudition by demonstrating his knowledge of rather obscure episodes ...
  • Salmon Feeds Our People: Challenging Dams on the Klamath River 
    Norgaard, Kari Marie; Reed, Ron (Conservation International, 2010)
    This is a story of how an impoverished northern California tribe challenged a massive Goliath — a huge private utility corporation. It is about one piece in the current struggle of the Karuk People in the Klamath River ...
  • Sand, sea, science : the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology 
    Butler, Barbara A. (University of Oregon Libraries, 2003-07)
    The physical exhibit "Sand, Sea, Science: The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology" (Knight Library display cases July 7-October 3, 2003) acquaints viewers with the teaching and research programs at the Oregon Institute of ...

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