Exploring the Dimensionality of Trust in Risk Regulation

By W. Poortinga, Nick F. Pidgeon. Risk Analysis, 2003

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour (2015, background): “Perceived trust: Since trust serves as a decision-making tool for reducing cognitive complexity [96] and may influence how people respond to various risks [97,98], information and incentives are likely to be more motivating – and therefore have greater behavioural impact – if they stem from credible”
Risk perception, trust and public engagement in nuclear decision-making in Hong Kong (2014, methodology): “Trust is regarded as a prerequisite for effective risk management (Brecher and Flynn, 2002; Cvetkovich and Löfstedt, 1999; Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2003), and is crucial to enhance policy legitimacy and improve policy efficacy (Braithwaite, 1998; Kim, 2005).”
Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis (2014, background): “See Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2003; Slovic, 1993; Wynne, 2001 for further discussion of trust relationships).”
Public trust in institutions and information sources regarding risk management and communication: towards integrating extant knowledge (2009, background): “Thus, the role of trust can be defined as ‘…lubricating social interactions on various levels, so that they function smoothly and harmoniously…’ (Tyler and Degoey 1996; Poortinga and Pidgeon 2003 , 961).”
Risk Information Seeking Among U.S. and Dutch Residents (2009, background): “Relevant aspects of trust, such as concern, expertise, openness, and credibility (see Poortinga & Pidgeon, 2003), were included.6 Although some of the scales (i.e., sufficiency threshold in both samples and informational subjective norms in the MC sample) had relatively low reliability, we decided…”
Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States (2008, background): “(55) Poortinga and Pidgeon examine the dimensions of trust and their relationship to risk regulation in five policy areas, including climate change.(57) They stress the importance of trust as a necessary construct in understanding risk perceptions.”
Learning to live with black bears: A psychological model of acceptance (2012, background): “…along with additional research aimed at understanding acceptance (see Siegrist et al. 2000, Siegrist and Cvetkovich 2000, Cvetkovich and Winter 2003, Poortinga and Pidgeon 2003, Vaske et al. 2007) provide a useful theoretical framework for grounding studies of wildlife acceptance in social…”
How to trust? The importance of self‐efficacy and social trust in public responses to industrial risks (2009, background): “The determinants of trust have been investigated in a number of studies (Peters, Covello, and McCallum 1997 ), and the consensus seems to be that the main contributors to trust and credibility are the public's perceptions of the organization's ability to care, commitment to resolving the risk, comp”
Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin: Hunter Behavior, Perceived Risk, and Agency Trust (2004, neutral): “…compared to those who do not (Bord & O’Connor, 1992; Douthitt, Grobe, & Zepeda, 1999; Frewer, Scholderer, & Bredahl, 2003; Hallman & Wandersman, 1995; Pijawka & Mushkatel, 1992; Poortinga & Pidgeon, 2003; Siegrist & Cvetkovich, 2000; Siegrist et al., 2000; Trumbo & McComas, 2003; Viklund, 2003).”
Emotions, Trust, and Perceived Risk: Affective and Cognitive Routes to Flood Preparedness Behavior (2011, background): “Research that has been devoted to distinguishing dimensions of trust has often found that perceived competence or expertise of risk management institutions underpinned trust ratings.(31,47) The perceived expertise of risk management authorities can be regarded as a more cognitive component of trust ”
Critical trust: understanding lay perceptions of health and safety risk regulation (2004, result): “Our current results are also congruent with other emerging evidence (Metlay 1999; Poortinga and Pidgeon 2003) that judgements of trust in institutions can similarly be characterised in terms of a constellation of meanings which have their own affective signification.”
Exploring the Triangular Relationship Between Trust, Affect, and Risk Perception: A Review of the Literature (2008, background): “There are, however, different theoretical approaches to the examination of the influence of trust in the context of risk management (Frewer et al., 2003; Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2003; Siegrist et al., 2003).”
Understanding social acceptance of electricity generation sources (2012, methodology): “The authors developed the questionnaire based on previous studies (Bronfman and Cifuentes, 2003; Bronfman and López-Vázquez, 2009; Bronfman et al., 2008; Metlay, 1999; Midden and Huijts, 2009; Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2003; Siegrist, 2000), and they validated it in focus group sessions conducted by th”