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1 online resource (xxvii, 425 pages) : illustrations |
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The Earthscan risk in society series |
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Earthscan risk in society series.
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| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction and Overview; Risk as feelings; Culture, cognition and risk; New psychometric studies; Risk knowledge and risk communication; Where do we go from here?; Part I Risk as Feelings; Chapter 1 The Affect Heuristic and the Attractiveness of Simple Gambles; Chapter 2 Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality; Chapter 3 Attentional Mechanisms in the Generation of Sympathy |
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Chapter 4 Sympathy and Callousness: The Impactof Deliberative Thought on Donations to Identifiable and Statistical VictimsChapter 5 The More Who Die, the Less We Care; Chapter 6 Numbers and Nerves: Toward an Affective Apprehension of Environmental Risk; Chapter 7 Cigarette Smokers: Rational Actors or Rational Fools?; Chapter 8 Affect, Risk Perception and Future Optimism After the Tsunami Disaster; Part II Culture, Cognition and Risk; Chapter 9 Gender, Race and Perceived Risk: The 'White-Male' Effect; Chapter 10 Discrimination, Vulnerability and Justice in the Face of Risk |
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Chapter 11 Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk PerceptionChapter 12 Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk; Chapter 13 Risk Lived, Stigma Experienced; Part III Psychometric Studies; Chapter 14 Public Perception of the Risk of Blood Transfusion; Chapter 15 Expert and Public Perception of Risk from Biotechnology; Chapter 16 Risk Perception of Prescription Drugs: Results of a National Survey; Chapter 17 Predicting and Modelling Public Response to a Terrorist Strike |
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Chapter 18 Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of NanotechnologyPart IV Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication; Chapter 19 The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing Fifteen Years of Research and Theory; Chapter 20 Numeracy Skill and the Communication, Comprehension and Use of Risk-Benefit Information; Chapter 21 Public Understanding of the Illnesses Caused by Cigarette Smoking; Chapter 22 The Impact and Acceptability of Canadian-style Cigarette Warning Labels Among US Smokers and Nonsmokers; References; Index |
| Summary |
The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century.In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the elements of knowledge, cognitive skill, and communication necessary for good decisions in the face of risk.The first section of the book looks at the difficulty of understanding risk without an emotional component, for example that disaster statistics lack emotion and thus fail to convey the true meaning of disasters and fail to motivate proper action to prevent them. The book also highlights other important perspectives on risk arising from cultural worldviews and concerns about specific hazards pertaining to blood transfusion, biotechnology, prescription drugs, smoking, terrorism, and nanotechnology. Following on from The Perception of Risk (2000), this book presents some of the most significant research on risk perception in recent years, providing essential lessons for all those involved in risk perception and communication. Publisher |
| Notes |
Earthscan publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-415) and index |
| Notes |
Paul Slovic is a founder and President of Decision Research, a non-profit research organization investigating human judgment, decision-making, and risk. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Oregon and a past President of the Society for Risk Analysis |
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online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 2, 2021) |
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Risk perception.
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Risk assessment.
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Decision making.
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Risk -- Social aspects
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Choice (Psychology)
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Emotions.
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Risk-taking (Psychology)
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Risk Assessment
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Choice Behavior
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Emotions
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Risk-Taking
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Decision Making
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risk assessment.
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decision making.
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emotion.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Risk-taking (Psychology)
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Emotions
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Choice (Psychology)
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Decision making
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Risk assessment
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Risk perception
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Risk -- Social aspects
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Risikoanalyse
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Wirtschaftspsychologie
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Risico's.
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Risicoanalyse.
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Beoordeling.
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Besluitvorming.
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Riskanalys.
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Beslutsfattande.
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Risker -- sociala aspekter.
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Perception.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
International Institute for Environment and Development.
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| ISBN |
9781849776677 |
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1849776679 |
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9781136530470 |
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1136530479 |
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