The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework

By R. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina Szejnwald Brown, J. Emel, R. Goble, J. Kasperson, S. Ratick. 1988

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Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “People are highly influenced by social dynamics and group membership in ways that create artificial amplification effects (Kasperson et al., 1988; Slovic, 1993; 1999).”
The Risk Perception Paradox—Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards (2013, background): “Indirect experience includes education, media, and hazard witnesses.(39,42,43) Several authors have collected factors correlated with hearing risk warnings, understanding warnings, and believing warnings.”
The Nasty Effect: Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies (2014, background): “Taken together, these perspectives suggest that social, political, and environmental factors, in addition to individual factors such as cognition levels, can contribute to variation in risk perceptions (Kasperson et al., 1988).”
Risk perception and the media (2000, unknown): “The only large-scale framework so far for understanding risk perception was proposed by Kasperson et al. (1988).”