Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach

By B. Johnson. 2002

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Risk Perception Paradox—Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards (2013, background): “Mental models and other psychological mechanisms that individuals use to judge risks (such as cognitive heuristics and risk images) are internalized through social and cultural learning and constantly moderated (reinforced, modified, amplified, or attenuated) by media reports, peer influences, and o”
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery (2009, methodology): “The technique uses semi-structured interviews in combination with photo elicitation to help participants relate complex concepts (for instance, the risks of having radon in one’s home) to everyday objects and events [39].”
How it works: a field study of non-technical users interacting with an intelligent system (2007, background): “who, as in our work, focus on less wellconstrained domains [19].”
Risk communication for public health emergencies. (2007, background): “Called a mental models approach, lay understanding of specific medical or environmental risks are explored using in-depth interviews (95).”
Mental models for conservation research and practice (2019, background): “Mental models can be elicited through open or semistructured mental models interviews (see Morgan et al., 2002) or laddering interview methods (see Reynolds & Gutman, 1988) that encourage participants to express mental models in their own terms.”
How Many Focus Groups Are Enough? Building an Evidence Base for Nonprobability Sample Sizes (2017, background): “One of the first studies to bridge this gap, and systematically examine saturation using raw data, was conducted by Morgan et al. (2002).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, background): “…work on climate cognition was trying to understand the way in which individuals process, classify, and organize new information, the study of so-called “mental models,” that is, people’s intuitive and contextual understanding of how something works (Kearney & Kaplan, 1997; Morgan et al., 2002).”
Risk and Uncertainty Communication (2017, background): “Such understanding requires a more sophisticated segmentation of the public (or publics), and one suggestion is to create a range of mental models, which display as directed graphs different conceptualizations of the issue in question (Morgan et al. 2001).”
Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings (2010, background): “Research has demonstrated that successful risk communication requires an understanding of people’s knowledge gaps and misconceptions (30), and the same is likely to be true for communications about energy.”
The Protective Action Decision Model: Theoretical Modifications and Additional Evidence (2012, background): “Another line of research that is likely to prove fruitful in understanding people’s conceptions of hazards is the mental models approach.(31) Such studies interview individuals to elicit the elements of their beliefs about a specific hazard domain and the interrelationships among the elements of tha”
The Psychology of Environmental Decisions (2014, background): “, accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere, increase in global temperature) (38, 39).”
Preparing for smart grid technologies: A behavioral decision research approach to understanding consumer expectations about smart meters (2012, methodology): “To examine people’s beliefs about smart meters, we used a two-stage mental models approach (Morgan et al., 2002).”
Public perception of climate risk and adaptation in the UK: A review of the literature (2014, background): “To communicate effectively about climate change and climate change adaptation, it is important to understand people’s current beliefs, as well as potential misunderstandings (Bruine de Bruin and Bostrom, 2013; Morgan et al., 2001).”
Perception and Communication of Flood Risks: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2013, methodology): “A promising qualitative method is the mental-models approach, which is widely applied in cognitive psychology.((81)) In short, a mental model reflects a person’s thought process about his/her observations in the real world.”