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" The perception of risk / "
Paul Slovic
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BL
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648391
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Slovic, Paul,1938-
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The perception of risk /\ Paul Slovic
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| Series Statement
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Risk, society, and policy series
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xxxvii, 473 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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1853835285 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9781853835285 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1853835277 (alk. paper)
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: 9781853835278 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-461) and index
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| Contents
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Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards / Paul Slovic, Howard Kunreuther and Gilbert White -- Cognitive processes and societal risk taking / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Preference for insuring against probable small losses: insurance implications / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Bernard Corrigan and Barbara Combs -- Accident probabilities and seat belt usage: a psychological perspective / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes toward technological risks and benefits / Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, Stephen Read and Barbara Combs -- Rating the risks / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Weighing the risks: which risks are acceptable? / Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Facts and fears: understanding perceived risk ; Response mode, framing and information-processing effects in risk assessment / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- The nature of technological hazard / Christoph Hohenemser, Robert W. Kates and Paul Slovic -- Informing and educating the public about risk / Paul Slovic -- Perception of risk from automobile safety defects / Paul Slovic, Donald G. MacGregor and Nancy N. Kraus -- Perception of risk / Paul Slovic -- The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework / Roger E. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson and Samuel Ratick -- The perception and management of therapeutic risk ; Perception of risk form radiation / Paul Slovic -- Perceived risk, trust and the politics of nuclear waste / Paul Slovic, James Flynn and Mark Layman -- Intuitive toxicology: expert and lay judgements of chemical risks / Nancy Kraus, Torbjorn Malmfors and Paul Slovic -- Perceived risk, trust and democracy / Paul Slovic -- Adolescent health-threatening and health-enhancing behaviors: a study of word association and imagery / Alida Benthin, Paul Slovic, Patricia Moran, Herbert Severson, C.K. Mertz and Meg Gerrard -- Technological stigma / Robin Gregory, James Flynn and Paul Slovic -- Probability, danger and coercion: a study of risk perception and decision-making in mental health law / Paul Slovic and John Monahan -- Do adolescent smokers know the risks? / Paul Slovic -- Insensitivity to the value of a human life: a study of psychophysical numbing / David Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Stephen M. Johnson and James Friedrich -- Trust, emotion, sex, politics and science: surveying the risk-assessment battlefield / Paul Slovic -- The affect heuristic in judgements of risks and benefits / Melissa L. Finucane, Ali Alhakami, Paul Slovic and Stephen M. Johnson
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Risk perception
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Risk assessment
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Risk-- Sociological aspects
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Risk
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Risk Assessment
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| Dewey Classification
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153.7/5
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BF637.R57S57 2000
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