Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk‐Assessment Battlefield

By Paul Slovic. 1999

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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).”
A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations (2006, unknown): “Empirical investigations have shown systematic individual, group, and cultural differences in perceptions of the riskiness of risky choice options (Bontempo, Bottom, & Weber, 1997; Slovic, 1998; Weber, 1988).”
American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous? (2005, background): “It is also “an orienting mechanism that directs fundamental psychological processes such as attention, memory, and information processing” (Slovic, 1997, p. 292).”
How does our perception of risk influence decision-making? Implications for the design of risk information (2007, background): “Consequently, it has been proposed that probabilistic risk assessments made by experts are based on real risks characterised as objective, analytic, and rational, whereas the non-experts’ risk perception is subjective, hypothetical, emotional, and irrational (Slovic 1997).”
The Communication Process as Evaluative Context: What Do Nonscientists Hear When Scientists Speak? (2001, background): “(Slovic 1999, p. 699) In such an environment, how can science be communicated with both integrity and social understanding?”
The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis (2005, unknown): “differentiation in many ways presaged Slovic et al.’s (2004) delineation of risk as”
Adolescents’ Worries about Environmental Risks: Subjective Well-being, Values, and Existential Dimensions (2005, background): “Numerous studies have pointed to the importance of trust for societal risk perception (Slovic 1999; Slovic et al. 2000).”
Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet) (2006, background): “Figure 1 shows the two-dimensional factor space that has been replicated across numerous studies in which people judged diverse sets of hazards in multiple countries (Slovic, 1997).”
The role of emotions in judging the moral acceptability of risks (2006, background): “Slovic (1999) seems to equate objectivity with what is ‘out there’ and with what is quantitative, whereas all of the following notions are grouped under the label ‘subjective’: ‘social construction’, ‘values’, ‘assumption-ladenness’, ‘judgment’, ‘intuitions’, ‘subjective assessment’, ‘qualitative’,…”
Value Predispositions, Mass Media, and Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology: The Interplay of Public and Experts (2011, background): “In particular, the most robust demographic predictor of perceived risks and benefits is gender, where females are likely to perceive greater risks (and less benefits) than do males (Bord & O’Connor, 1997; Davidson & Freudenburg, 1996; Gutteling & Wiegman, 1993; Savage, 1993; Slovic, 1999).”
Culture and Individual Judgment and Decision Making (2008, background): “, & Slovic, P. (1988). Societal risk as seen by a Norwegian”