Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?
By A. Wildavsky, Karl Dake. 2016
579 citations recorded by the source corpus.
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cce570ebbae76833e79f1f602783d15db6b87237
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
- Dan Kahan
- H. Jenkins‐Smith
- Rebecca Morss
- Julie L. Demuth
- Donald Braman
- S. Dryhurst
- C. Schneider
- J. Lazo
Citations in the corpus
- Understanding Public Hurricane Evacuation Decisions and Responses to Forecast and Warning Messages (2016, background): “…cultural beliefs, that is, their beliefs about ideal social organization and priorities (e.g., Douglas 1970; Douglas and Wildavsky 1982; Dake and Wildavsky 1990; Peters and Slovic 1996; Leiserowitz 2006; Kahan et al. 2007, 2011; Goebbert et al. 2012; McNeeley and Lazrus 2014; Greenberg et al.…”
- Developing a Scale to Measure Tourist Perceived Safety (2021, background): “Wildavsky and Dake (1990), for example, reviewed five alternative theories of risk perception (knowledge, personality, economic, political, and cultural).”
- Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world (2020, background): “…between individuals and between different countries (Douglas and Wildavsky 1983; Loewenstein et al. 2001; Leiserowitz 2006; Joffe 2003; Kasperson et al. 1988; Sj€oberg 2002; Wildavsky and Dake 1990; Slovic 2010; Slovic, Fischhoff, and Lichtenstein 1982; van der Linden 2015, 2017; Wåhlberg 2001).”
- The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model (2015, background): “First operationalized empirically by Wildavsky and Dake (1990), recent studies have found a significant relationship between “cultural worldviews” and risk perceptions of climate change (e.g., Akerlof et al., 2013; Kahan et al., 2012; Leiserowitz, 2006; Smith & Leiserowitz, 2012).”
- Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication (2015, result): “Survey and experimental studies have found support for these predictions (Wildavsky & Dake 1990; Jenkins-Smith 2001; Kahan, Braman, Monahan, Callahan & Peters 2010; Kahan, Braman, Slovic, Gastil & Cohen 2009; Kahan, Braman, Gastil, Slovic & Mertz 2007).”