Risk Perception and Affect

By Paul Slovic, Ellen Peters. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Natural Language Processing

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Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “They tend to lump multiple independent dimensions together as a single intuitive, highly-correlated, wholesale judgment (Slovic, 1987; Finucane et al., 2000a; Slovic & Peters, 2006; Slovic et al., 2013).”
How to define and measure risk perceptions (2019, background): “This is a bias known as probability neglect (Slovic & Peters, 2006; Sunstein, 2002).”
Affect, Moral Intuition, and Risk (2010, background): “Risk in the modern world is perceived and acted upon in two fundamental ways ( Slovic & Peters, 2006 ).”
Targeting human fear of large carnivores — Many ideas but few known effects (2016, background): “This may be especially relevant in situations where lack of trust in managing authorities is associated with fear responses (Slovic and Peters, 2006; Johansson et al., 2012; Zajac et al., 2012; Pohja-Mykrä and Kurki, 2014).”
Defining features versus incidental correlates of Type 1 and Type 2 processing (2012, background): “For example, the cognitive miser will substitute the less effortful attributes of vividness or affect for the more effortful retrieval of relevant facts (Kahneman 2003; Slovic and Peters 2006; Wang 2009).”
Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions. (2012, background): “This ‘risk as analysis’ view has been complemented with the intuitive sensing of risk: the ‘risk as feeling’ perspective ([42] or ‘affect heuristic’ [43]) holds that risk perception is based on affective stimulus evaluations [44,45], which form the basis of authentic experiences of risk as opposed t”
Communicating Food Safety via the Social Media (2014, background): “The concept of “affect heuristic”—proposed by Slovic and Peters (2006)—highlights the significance of affect (or emotion) associated with risk perception and risk-related behavior.”
The complexity of developmental predictions from dual process models (2011, background): “For example, people will substitute the less effortful attributes of vividness, stereotype, or affect for the more effortful retrieval of relevant facts (Kahneman, 2003; Li & Chapman, 2009; Slovic & Peters, 2006; Wang, 2009).”
The impact of emotions on shopping behavior during epidemic. What a business can do to protect customers (2020, background): “Sunstein (2003) claims that when probability neglect appears, people focus their thinking on negative outcomes (Slovic & Peters, 2006).”
Attitudes towards sexual offenders: what do we know, and why are they important? (2017, background): “Further, the affect heuristic is also implicated in moderating attitudes towards sexual offenders, with a number of studies arguing that we are led primarily by our automatic emotional reactions to contentious issues (e.g., Haidt, 2001; Slovic & Peters, 2006).”
Risk and Uncertainty Communication (2017, background): “…idea is the affect heuristic, which is essentially that people tend to have an overall positive or negative feeling about a potential hazard (Slovic & Peters 2006): Negative affect, say toward anything nuclear, means they will tend to both play up the harms and downplay any benefits,…”