Gender, race, and perception of environmental health risks.

By J. Flynn, Paul Slovic, C. K. Mertz. 1994

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Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “White men are also outliers in minimizing risks on societal issues like climate change (Flynn et al., 1994).”
Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design (2022, background): “…that people tend to have trouble comprehending large numbers and have more of a response to representative narratives (Slovic, 2010) – but also population biases in risk estimation, where white men are often outliers in how they (under)estimate risks (Finucane et al., 2000; Flynn et al., 1994).”
The risk of social-psychological disruption as an impact of energy development and environmental change (2014, background): “…of risk, including the ways in which the risks are communicated (Kasperson et al. 1988; Krimsky and Plough 1988), social and demographic status (Flynn, Slovic, and Mertz 1994), cultural factors (Douglas and Wildavsky 1983), personality traits (Ulleberg and Rundmo 2003), gender (Davidson and…”
Gender, race, and perceived risk: The 'white male' effect (2000, background): “This result is consistent with gender differences found previously in many studies (for example, Brody, 1984; Steger and Witt, 1989; Gwartney-Gibbs and Lach, 1991; Gutteling and Wiegman, 1993; Stern et al., 1993; Flynn et al., 1994).”
Updating Subjective Risks in the Presence of Conflicting Information: An Application to Climate Change (2003, background): “…being purely random.17 Gender differences in risk perception have been identified by Finucane et al. (2000), who elaborate upon earlier findings by Flynn et al. (1994) that race and gender differences in risk perception in the US were primarily due to that 30% of the white male population who…”
Cross-cultural comparisons of traffic safety, risk perception, attitudes and behaviour (2009, background): “This supports Goszczynska et al. (1991) who suggested that there were major differences between countries in perception of risks.”
Households' Perceived Personal Risk and Responses in a Multihazard Environment (2008, background): “Additional research is needed to determine if this finding is due to poorer households’ lack of control over their environments (Flynn et al., 1994) or some other reason because the nonsignificant correlation of income with hazard adjustment seems to rule out the possibility of wealthier households’”
Gender differences in optimism and asset allocation (2014, background): “A strand of research in psychology (see Flynn, Slovic, and Mertz, 1994) shows that across a variety of scenarios, white men perceive risks as lower (worry less) than non-white men or women.”
An Examination of the Effect of Perceived Risk on Preparedness Behavior (2013, methodology): “…variables are used, analyses still emphasize the impact that gender (female) and race (Black) have on increased risk perception, called the “White male effect,” and do not report the amount of variance in perceived risk that is explained (Finucane et al., 2000; Flynn et al., 1994; Savage, 1993).”
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Expected Retirement Benefits (2007, background): “Flynn, Slovic, and Mertz (1994), however, found that risktaking differences between men and women applied only to white males; that is, Flynn et al. found no difference in riskperception ratings between nonwhite men and women.”
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “Previous studies have found that race and gender differences in risk perception can be attributed to a discrete class of highly risk-skeptical white men (Flynn et al., 1994).”