Emotions and Risk Perception

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News framing effects on destination risk perception (2016, background): “For example, the public is more concerned about involuntary risks (Slovic, 1987) and risk in affectrich contexts such as terrorist attacks, than about less spectacular but much more probable ones such as heart disease (Lowenstein, Hsee, Weber, & Welch, 2001; Sj€oberg, 2007).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, background): “In addition, the operational validity of the affect-heuristic and the explanatory power of the “dread” factor in risk perception have both been questioned (e.g., Sjöberg, 2006, 2007).”
A Review of Risk Perceptions and Other Factors that Influence Flood Mitigation Behavior (2012, background): “(31) It has been shown that emotions influence the cognitive evaluation of a risk and the respective behavioral response to it.(73,74) Accordingly, a number of studies also include an independent variable of the affect component, such as “fear” of or “worry” about flooding.”