Perception of risk.
By Paul Slovic. 1987
Subfields: Evaluation & Benchmarks
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Citations in the corpus
- Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “They tend to lump multiple independent dimensions together as a single intuitive, highly-correlated, wholesale judgment (Slovic, 1987; Finucane et al., 2000a; Slovic & Peters, 2006; Slovic et al., 2013).”
- Updating Subjective Risks in the Presence of Conflicting Information: An Application to Climate Change (2003, background): “5 For more general and comprehensive treatments of the topic of risk perception, see Sjoberg, (2000), or Slovic (2000).”
- Affect, risk, and decision making. (2005, background): “Evidence of risk as feelings was present (though not fully appreciated) in early psychometric studies of risk perception (Fischhoff, Slovic, Lichtenstein, Read, & Combs, 1978; Slovic, 1987).”
- Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians (2017, background): “Second, most officials had left office at the time of the study. action, and indeed have been shown to dominate public opinion formation and, subsequently, the decision making of policy actors (Arceneaux 2012; Druckman and McDermott 2008; Levy 2003; Slovic 2000).”
- Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation (2017, unknown): “Last, for parental risk perception, for each of the 10 online risks, we multiplied a measure of how harmful it could be to the child (1 = not harmful at all to 7 = very harmful ) and how likely it is to happen (1 = not likely at all to 7 = very likely ) (see Slovic, 2004).”
- Factors in Risk Perception (2000, background): “(28) The famous “map” of hazards in the two major dimensions of Dread and New–Old (29) shows, e.”
- Individual preferences for reducing flood risk to near zero through elevation (2013, background): “Individual perceptions of natural hazard risks may deviate considerably from expert judgment of risk (Slovic 1987; Botzen et al. 2009b).”
- 'Life would be pretty dull without risk': Voluntary risk-taking and its pleasures (2002, background): “…that are familiar or voluntary as less serious than risks that are new or imposed upon them, and that they are more likely to be concerned about risks that are rare and memorable than those that are seen as common but less disastrous (see, for example, Slovic, 1987; Hansson, 1989; Adams, 1995).”
- Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, unknown): “Specifically, the so-called “psychometric paradigm” pioneered the process of identifying explanatory factors in risk perception (Slovic, 1987).”
- Food quality and safety––consumer perception and public health concern (2005, background): “Perceptions of the importance of different types of risks vary between experts and laymen as shown by Slovic (1987) or Renn and Zwick (1997).”
- Slovakian Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Biotechnology (2007, background): “Biotechnology can be viewed as a typical example of high perception of risk (Slovic, 1987).”
- American Risk Perceptions: Is Climate Change Dangerous? (2005, background): “But so are lay public definitions of “dangerous,” which are sensitive to “technical, social and psychological qualities of hazards that are not well-modeled in technical risk assessments” (Slovic, 2000, p. 392).”