Terrorism and Probability Neglect

By Cass R. Sunstein. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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News framing effects on destination risk perception (2016, background): “Exposure of audiences to reports of violence may result in risk perceptions disproportionate to the actual probability of harm, a phenomenon Sunstein (2003) refers to as probability neglect.”
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well-Being in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “This research goes some way towards demonstrating that the fear and psychological cost induced by terrorism is substantial and might greatly exceed the discounted physical harm (Sunstein, 2003; Becker and Rubinstein, 2004).”
Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection (2013, background): “Email: dan.kahan@yale.edu. and that permitting private citizens to carry concealed hand guns increases crime.”
Contingent Reliance on the Affect Heuristic as a Function of Regulatory Focus (2008, background): “…phenomenon known as scope-insensitivity (Fetherstonhaugh, Slovic, Johnson, & Friedrich, 1997; Hsee & Rottenstreich, 2004)—and less sensitive to the probability that surrounds it—a phenomenon known as probability neglect (Loewenstein et al., 2001; Rottenstreich & Hsee, 2001; Sunstein, 2003).”
Probability weighting and the ‘level’ and ‘spacing’ of outcomes: An experimental study over losses (2009, background): “For instance, Kunreuther et al. (2001) and Sunstein (2003) show that discriminability tends to decrease as the emotional content of consequences grows.”
The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism (2009, methodology): “Terrorist fatalities For the British Isles, the variable on the number of fatalities is constructed on the basis of the RAND data and Sutton's (1994) list.”
Perceptions of Terrorism Threats at the 2004 Olympic Games: Implications for Sport Events (2007, background): “tions about low-probability risks of further terrorism, more than is statistically warranted (Sunstein, 2003).”
Affective Politics after 9/11 (2015, unknown): “Sunstein 2003, 122.”
Calculating Tragedy: Assessing the Costs of Terrorism (2004, unknown): “Similarly, Sunstein (2003) shows that individuals focus on the badness of the outcome rather than on the probability that it will occur.”
Risk Perception and Affect (2006, background): “Legal scholar Cass Sunstein (2003) labels this insensitivity probability neglect and argues that the emotion associated with terrorist threats causes public officials and private citizens to overreact: ‘‘Probability neglect is highly likely in the aftermath of terrorism . . .”
The Priority Heuristic: Making Choices Without Trade-Offs (2006, background): “For choices between gambles, the empirical evidence suggests that people do not treat the reasons equally, which speaks against the tallying family of heuristics (Brandstätter & Kühberger, 2005; Deane, 1969; Loewenstein, Weber, Hsee, & Welch, 2001; Sunstein, 2003).”
The impact of emotions on shopping behavior during epidemic. What a business can do to protect customers (2020, background): “Sunstein (2003) claims that when probability neglect appears, people focus their thinking on negative outcomes (Slovic & Peters, 2006).”