Perceptions of risk

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Climate change, natural hazards, and risk perception: the role of proximity and personal experience (2015, background): “…and perceptions Risk research has shown that people consider events that appear to be involuntary, uncontrollable, and dramatic, with disaster potential and that are close in time to be more threatening than events that are more gradual, diffuse, and likely to happen in the future (Slovic 1987).”
Individual differences in need for cognition and decision-making competence among leaders (2011, unknown): “People’s perceptions of risk are often inaccurate (Johnson & Tversky, 1983; Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, & Combs, 1978; Slovic, 1987).”