Gender, race, and perceived risk: The 'white male' effect

By Melissa L. Finucane, Paul Slovic, C. K. Mertz, J. Flynn, Terre Satterfield. 2000

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 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).”
Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design (2022, background): “…that people tend to have trouble comprehending large numbers and have more of a response to representative narratives (Slovic, 2010) – but also population biases in risk estimation, where white men are often outliers in how they (under)estimate risks (Finucane et al., 2000; Flynn et al., 1994).”
Risk perception: Another look at the 'white male' effect (2003, background): “Furthermore, there is some evidence that these risk perceptions are associated with sociopolitical factors including endorsement of fatalistic and egalitarian worldviews (Finucane et al. 2000a).”
'Life would be pretty dull without risk': Voluntary risk-taking and its pleasures (2002, background): “Finucane et al. (2000), for example, found that among various American groups, whites were less concerned about a range of nominated risks than were non-whites, with white men the least concerned and non-white women the most concerned.”
An Examination of the Effect of Perceived Risk on Preparedness Behavior (2013, methodology): “…variables are used, analyses still emphasize the impact that gender (female) and race (Black) have on increased risk perception, called the “White male effect,” and do not report the amount of variance in perceived risk that is explained (Finucane et al., 2000; Flynn et al., 1994; Savage, 1993).”
Gender Differences in Preferences (2009, background): “Single women were less risk prone than single men, consistent with the lab evidence above (see also Finucane et al. 2000; Nancy Ammon Jianakoplos and Alexandra Bernasek 1998). Similarly, Richard P. Hinz, David D. McCarthy, and John A. Turner (1997) used data on participants in the federal government”
Bringing ideology in: the conservative white male effect on worry about environmental problems in the USA (2013, methodology): “…technological risks (Finucane et al. 2000; Flynn, Slovic, and Mertz 1994; Palmer 2003; Satterfield, Mertz, and Slovic 2004), environmental problems (Finucane et al. 2000; Flynn, Slovic, and Mertz 1994; Johnson 2002; Kahan et al. 2007; Kalof et al. 2002; Marshall 2004; Marshall et al. 2006;…”
Personality and domain‐specific risk taking (2005, background): “, 1999), an inverse age-risk taking function (Ungemack, 1994; Martin and Leary, 2001) and a combination of risk perception factors (Finucane et al., 2000).”