Information Sufficiency and Risk Communication

By Robert J. Griffin, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody, James Giese. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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An Augmented Risk Information Seeking Model: The Case of Global Warming (2007, neutral): “Griffin, Neuwirth, Dunwoody, & Giese, 2004 ; Johnson, 2005 ; Kahlor et al, 2006 ; Trumbo, 2002 ; Turner et al, 2006 ).”
The Role of Emotional Response during an H1N1 Influenza Pandemic on a College Campus (2013, background): “In the context of a flood, angrier members of the public perceived greater risk of becoming victims of future flood incidents, making them more likely to seek relevant information but having less trust in the agencies responsible for managing the crisis (Griffin et al., 2004).”
Online Information Seeking and Disease Prevention Intent During COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, background): “Some RISP-related studies have shown that perceived risk is an antecedent of affective responses (Griffin et al., 2004; Johnson, 2005).”
Applying the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model to Examine Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policy (2014, methodology): “The RISP model proposes that affective responses resulting from perceived hazard characteristics can increase an individual’s information insufficiency about the issue (Griffin et al., 2004) and directly motivate information seeking and processing (Griffin et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2010).”
Communication management and trust: Their role in building resilience to "surprises" such as natural disasters, pandemic flu, and terrorism (2008, neutral): “However, all attempts to distribute information will be in vain if the people receiving it do not trust the message or the sender of the message (Griffin et al. 2004).”
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance (2013, methodology): “…of using difference scores to calculate information by Maxwell Boykoff on June 2, 2013scx.sagepub.comDownloaded from insufficiency, current knowledge was entered as an exogenous variable and information sufficiency threshold as an adjacent endogenous variable (Griffin et al., 2004; Kahlor, 2010).”
Information needs and risk perception as predictors of risk information seeking (2008, background): “2004 ; Trumbo and McComas 2003 ; Johnson 2005 ).”
Perception and Communication of Flood Risks: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2013, background): “28 perception.((99)) The most important characteristics seem to be age, gender, education, income, and home ownership.”