The Perception of Risk

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Forecasting Risk Attitudes: An Experimental Study Using Actual and Forecast Gamble Choices (2008, unknown): “Slovic (2000) and Lerner et al.”
UNEMPLOYED BUT OPTIMISTIC: OPTIMAL INSURANCE DESIGN WITH BIASED BELIEFS (2015, background): “Social and private insurance diverge; a paternalistic social planner corrects the moral hazard cost for the distortion in the insured s e¤ort choice, while private insurers focus on the perceived rather than the true smoothing bene ts.”
Multidimensional analysis of perceived risk in commercial air travel (2007, background): “At the same time, psychological research suggest that people tend to overestimate risks that can be characterised as unknown as against those which are obvious, involuntary and uncontrollable, and certain to cause fear (Slovic, 2000).”
Nuclear power, climate change and energy security: Exploring British public attitudes (2011, background): “…acceptance position appears to bring to the surface a particularly severe tension between intuitive affective responses to nuclear power (deepseated worries, feelings, and negative images; Slovic, 2000) and the more analytic cognitive processes grounded in contemporary framings of the issue.”