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  • Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation 
    Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul; Braman, Donald; Gastil, John; Cohen, Geoffrey (Yale Law School, 2007-03)
    Despite knowing little about nanotechnology (so to speak), members of the public readily form opinions on whether its potential risks outweigh its potential benefits. On what basis are they forming their judgments? How ...
  • Cultural Evaluations of Risk: "Values" or "Blunders"? 
    Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul (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 ...
  • Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk 
    Kahan, Dan; Slovic, Paul; Braman, Donald; Gastil, John (Harvard Law School, 2006-01-01)
  • Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government 
    Kahan, Dan; Peters, Ellen; Dawson, Erica Cantrell; Slovic, Paul (The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, 2013)
    Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative answers: the “Science Comprehension Thesis” ...
  • Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government 
    Kahan, Dan; Peters, Ellen; Dawson, Erica Cantrell; Slovic, Paul (Yale Law School, 2013)
    Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative answers: the “Science Comprehension Thesis” ...
  • The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of—and Making Progress In— the American Culture War of Fact 
    Kahan, Dan; Gastil, John; Braman, Donald; Cohen, Geoffrey; Slovic, Paul (Yale Law School, 2007-10)
    Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the ...
  • The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change 
    Kahan, Dan; Peters, Ellen; Braman, Donald; Slovic, Paul; Wittlin, Maggie; Larrimore Ouellette, Lisa; Mandel, Gregory (Yale Law School, 2011)
    The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and ...

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