Research Catalog

Title

The feeling of risk : new perspectives on risk perception / Paul Slovic.

Author

Slovic, Paul, 1938-

Publication

London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.

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Additional Authors

International Institute for Environment and Development

Description

xxvii, 425 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the concept of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the elements of knowledge, cognitive skill, and communication necessary for good decisions in the face of risk. Following on from The Perception of Risk (2000), this book presents some of the most significant research on risk perception in recent years, providing essential lessons for all those involved in risk perception and communication. "--Book jacket.

Series Statement

Earthscan risk in society series

Subject

• Risk-Taking
• Emotions
• Choice Behavior
• Risk Assessment
• Risk perception
• Risk assessment
• Decision making
• Risk > Social aspects
• Decision Making

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles / Ian Bateman [and others] -- Risk as analysis and risk as feelings : some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality / Paul Slovic [and others] -- Attentional mechanisms in the generation of sympathy / Stephan Dickert and Paul Slovic -- Sympathy and callousness : the impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims / Deborah A. Small, George Loewenstein and Paul Slovic -- The more who die, the less we care / Paul Slovic -- Numbers and nerves : toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk / Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic -- Cigarette smokers : rational actors or rational fools? / Paul Slovic -- Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster / Daniel Västfjäll, Ellen Peters and Paul Slovic -- Gender, race and perceived risk : the 'white-male' effect / Melissa L. Finucane [and others] --^
• Discrimination, vulnerability and justice in the face of risk / Terre Satterfield, C.K. Mertz and Paul Slovic -- Culture and identity-protective cognition : explaining the white-male effect in risk perception / Dan M. Kahan [and others] -- Fear of democracy : a cultural evaluation of Sunstein on risk / Dan M. Kahan [and others] -- Risk lived, stigma experienced / Terre Satterfield [and others] -- Public perception of the risk of blood transfusion / Melissa L. Finucane, Paul Slovic and C.K. Mertz -- Expert and public perception of risk from biotechnology / Lucia Savadori [and others] -- Risk perception of prescription drugs : results of a national survey / Paul Slovic [and others] -- Predicting and modelling public response to a terrorist strike / William J. Burns and Paul Slovic -- Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology / Dan M. Kahan [and others] --^
• The social amplification of risk : assessing fifteen years of research and theory / Jeanne X. Kasperson [and others] -- Numeracy skill and the communication, comprehension and use of risk-benefit information / Ellen Peters [and others] -- Public understanding of the illnesses caused by cigarette smoking / Neil D. Weinstein [and others] -- The impact and acceptability of Canadian-style cigarette warning labels among US smokers and nonsmokers / Ellen Peters [and others].

ISBN

• 9781849711494 (hbk.)
• 9781849711487 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010001827

OCLC

• 503594624
• SCSB-12451161

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library