Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk

By L. Vassie, Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, S. Lichtenstein. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Risk Assessment of Cascading Outages: Methodologies and Challenges (2012, background): “The committee’s conclusions from this review are summarized in Section VI.”
Impact of the perceived threat of COVID-19 on variety-seeking (2020, neutral): “…to the threat of a disease or disaster, researchers ave emphasized the importance of the subjective perception f the threat rather than the objective perception of the actual hreat ( Slovic et al., 1980 ; Tomaka et al., 1993 ; also see cogniive appraisal theory, Lazarus and Folkman, 1984 ).”
Humane Entrepreneurship: How Focusing on People Can Drive a New Era of Wealth and Quality Job Creation in a Sustainable World (2018, background): “…research identifies additional factors that may be important in predicting risktaking: previous risk-taking behavior (Thaler and Johnson 1990); the framing of a risk problem (Kahneman and Tversky 1979); and the ability to perform under risky conditions (Slovic, Fischhoff, and Lichtenstein 1980).”
Perception of risk: the influence of general trust, and general confidence (2005, background): “Much of the past research has focused on the question of why various hazards are perceived differently (Fischhoff et al., 1978; Slovic et al., 1980; Slovic, 1987).”
Designing a Moral Compass for the Future of Computer Vision Using Speculative Analysis (2017, positive): “Our approach brings together various areas of research such as the study of risk perception [55], speculative design/fiction [13, 7], and future studies [40, 57] in order to garner foresight, generate representations of alternative futures, and analyze competing ethical factors relevant to technolog”
Preference for robot service or human service in hotels? Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, neutral): “The nature of COVID-19 can pose significant uncertainty and heighten the fear of infection among travelers (Slovic et al., 1980; Lerner and Keltner, 2000).”
The Less You Know, the More You Are Afraid of—A Survey on Risk Perceptions of Investment Products (2011, result): “Eliciting risk tolerance level of the clients has already been put into practice during the financial advisory process. It is often overlooked, however, that the perceived risks of the same investment product can be distinctly different among investors. Thus, in addition to the risk tolerance level,”
More for the Many: The Influence of Entitativity on Charitable Giving (2013, background): “People tend to donate more generously as the reference group to which victims belong grows smaller and the proportion helped thus increases (Bartels and Burnett 2011; Slovic, Fischhoff, and Lichtenstein 1980).”
Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability (2003, background): “People feel greater concern toward victims as the reference group they are part of grows smaller (Slovic, Fischhoff, and Lichtenstein, 1980).”