Psychology · Judgement & Decision Making

Risk Perception

A topic within Judgement & Decision Making, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper2004

Dread Risk, September 11, and Fatal Traffic Accidents

Gerd Gigerenzer

Estimates that Americans who drove instead of flying out of dread of another attack caused more excess road deaths in the three months after September 11 than the terrorists killed in the attacks themselves, arguing that avoiding a dread risk is itself a risk that gets left out of the reckoning.

Psychology · Judgement & Decision Making

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Paper1987

Perception of Risk

Paul Slovic

Lay judgements of how risky an activity or technology is track dread and unfamiliarity far more than statistical death tolls, which is why nuclear power has historically been feared out of proportion to its measured harm.

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Psychology · Judgement & Decision Making

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Reading on Risk Perception

Dread Risk, September 11, and Fatal Traffic Accidents

Perception of Risk

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