Publications

609 Slovic, P. (2008). Affect, reason, and mere hunches. Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 4, 191-211.

575 Bateman, I., Dent, S., Peters, E., Slovic, P., & Starmer, C. (2007) The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20(4), 365-380.

597 Kahan, D. M., Slovic, P., Braman, D., Gastil, J., & Cohen, G. L. (2007, March). Affect, values, and nanotechnology risk perceptions: An experimental investigation (GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 261) Retrieved May 10, 2007 from http://ssrn.com/abstract=968652

560 Leiserowitz, A. A. (2007). Communicating the risks of global warming: American risk perceptions, affective images and interpretive communities. In S. C. Moser & L. Dilling (Eds.), Creating a climate for change: Communicating climate change and facilitating social change (pp. 44-63). New York: Cambridge University Press.

598 Lichtenstein, S., Gregory, R., & Irwin, J. (2007). What's bad is easy: Taboo values, affect, and cognition. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 169-188. Retrieved June 18, 2007, from http://journal.sjdm.org/vol2.3.htm

585 Peters, E., Hess, T. M., Västfjäll, D., & Auman, C. (2007). Adult age differences in dual information processes: Implications for the role of affective and deliberative processes in older adults’ decision making. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 1-23.

568 Peters, E., Romer, D., Slovic, P., Jamieson, K. H., Wharfield, L. M., Mertz, C. K., & Carpenter, S. M. (2007). The impact and acceptability of Canadian-style cigarette warning labels among U.S. smokers and nonsmokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 9, 473-481.

577 Peters, E., & Slovic, P. (2007). Affective asynchrony and the measurement of the affective attitude component. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 300-329.

613 Rivers, L., & Arvai, J. (2007). Win some, lose some: The effect of chronic losses on decision making under risk. Journal of Risk Research, 10, 1085-1099.

592 Slovic, P. (2007, March). Numbed by numbers. Foreign Policy. Retrieved April 4, 2007 from www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3751

473 Peters, E., Dieckmann, N., Västfjäll, D., Mertz, C. K., Slovic, P., & Hibbard, J. (2006). Bringing meaning to numbers: The functions of affect in choice (Report No. 06-01). Eugene, OR: Decision Research.

557 Leiserowitz, A. A. (2006). Climate change risk perception and policy preferences: The role of affect, imagery, and values. Climatic Change, 77, 45-72.

572 Lorenzoni, I., Leiserowitz, A., de Franca Doria, M., Poortinga, W., & Pidgeon, N. F. (2006). Cross-national comparisons of image associations with "global warming" and "climate change" among laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain. Journal of Risk Research, 9, 265-281.

518 Peters, E. (2006). The functions of affect in the construction of preferences. In S. Lichtenstein & P. Slovic (Eds.), The construction of preference (pp. 454-463). New York: Cambridge University Press.

552 Peters, E. (2006). Numbers are just numbers [Commentary on the chapter “Social norms, rules of thumb, and retirement: Evidence for rationality in retirement planning]. In K.W. Shaie & L. L. Carstensen (Eds.), Social structures, aging and self-regulation in the elderly (pp. 175-188). New York: Springer.

566 Peters, E., Lipkus, I., & Diefenbach, M. A. (2006). The functions of affect in health communications and in the construction of health preferences. Journal of Communication, 56, S140-S162.

564 Peters, E., McCaul, K. D., Stefanek, M., & Nelson, W. (2006). A heuristics approach to understanding cancer risk perception: Contributions from judgment and decision-making research. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 45-52.

562 Peters, E., Västfjäll, D., Gärling, T. & Slovic, P. (2006). Affect and decision making: A “hot” topic. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 79-85.

553 Peters, E., Västfjäll, D., Slovic, P., Mertz, C. K., Mazzocco, K., & Dickert, S. (2006). Numeracy and decision making. Psychological Science, 17, 407-413.

547 Wilson, R.S., & Arvai, J.L. (2006). When less is more: How affect influences preferences when comparing low and high-risk options. Journal of Risk Research, 9, 165-178.

512 Finucane, M. L., & Satterfield, T. A. (2005). Risk as narrative values: A theoretical framework for facilitating the biotechnology debate. International Journal of Biotechnology, 17, 128-146.

559 Peters, E., & Västfjäll, D. (2005, November). Affective processes in decision making by older adults. Paper presented at the National Research Council Workshop on Decision Making by Older Adults, Washington, DC.

538 Slovic, P., Peters, E., Finucane, M. L., & MacGregor, D. G. (2005). Affect, risk, and decision making. Health Psychology., 24, S35-S40

516 Slovic, S., & Slovic, P. (2004/2005). Numbers and nerves: Toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk. Whole Terrain, 13, 14-18.

491 Gregory, R. S. (2004). Valuing risk management choices. In T. McDaniels & M. J. Small (Eds.), Risk analysis and society: An interdisciplinary characterization of the field (pp. 213-250). New York: Cambridge University Press.

513 Peters, E. M., Burraston, B., & Mertz, C. K. (2004). An emotion-based model of risk perception and stigma susceptibility: Cognitive appraisals of emotion, affective reactivity, worldviews, and risk perceptions in the generation of technological stigma. Risk Analysis, 24, 1349-1367.

527 Savadori, L., Savio, S., Nicotra, E., Rumiati, R., Finucane, M., & Slovic, P. (2004). Expert and public perception of risk from biotechnology. Risk Analysis, 24, 1289-1299.

519 Slovic, P. (2004). What's fear got to do with it? It's affect we need to worry about. Missouri Law Review, 69, 971-990.

502 Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2004). Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: Some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality. Risk Analysis, 24(2), 1-12. (Download the December 2002 paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, New Orleans, LA. Download; 922K, PDF)

464 Finucane, M.L., Peters, E., & Slovic, P. (2003). Judgment and decision making: The dance of affect and reason. In S.L. Schneider & J. Shanteau (Eds.), Emerging perspectives on judgment and decision research (pp. 327-364) UK: Cambridge University Press.

507 Hibbard, J. H., Dubow, J. D., & Peters, E. (2003, May). Decision making in consumer-directed health plans (#2003-05). Washington, DC: AARP.

506 Peters, E., Slovic, P., & Gregory, R. (2003). The role of affect in the WTA/WTP disparity. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 16, 309-330.

504 Slovic, P. (2003). Affect, analysis, adolescence, and risk. In D. Romer (Ed.), Reducing adolescent risk: Toward an integrated approach. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

498 Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2002). Rational actors or rational fools? Implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics. Journal of Socio-Economics, 31, 329-342. Download a later, revised version of this article (1.2MB, PDF)

454 Slovic, P., Finucane, M., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2002). The affect heuristic. In T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment (pp. 397-420). New York: Cambridge University Press.

497 Svenson, O., & Slovic, P. (2002, February). Can word associations and affect be used as indicators of differentiation and consolidation in decision making? (Report No. 02-04). Eugene, OR: Decision Research. Download (pdf, 141 kb)

453 Satterfield, T. (2001). In search of value literacy: Suggestions for the elicitation of environmental values. Environmental Values, 10, 331-359.

416 Finucane, M. L., Alhakami, A., Slovic, P., & Johnson, S. M. (2000). The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, 1-17.

438 Peters, E., & Slovic, P. (2000). The springs of action: Affective and analytical information processing in choice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1465-1475.

462 Slovic, P. (2000). Rational actors and rational fools: The influence of affect on judgment and decision-making. Roger Williams University Law Review, 6, 163-212.

370 Slovic, P. (1999). Trust, emotion, sex, politics, and science: Surveying the risk-assessment battlefield. Risk Analysis, 19(4), 689-701. Originally published in M. H. Bazerman, D. M. Messick, A. E. Tenbrunsel, & K. A. Wade-Benzoni (Eds.), Environment, ethics, and behavior (pp. 277-313). San Francisco: New Lexington, 1997. Revised version in The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1997, pp. 59-99.