Applied Research

Environment

Natural and Technological Hazards

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594 Peters, E. (2008). Numeracy and the perception and communication of risk. In W. T. Tucker, S. Ferson, A. M. Finkel, & D. Slavin (Eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Vol. 1128. Strategies for risk communication: Evolution, evidence, experience (pp. 1-7). New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.

544 Arvai, J., Gregory, R., Ohlson, D., Blackwell, B., & Gray, R. (2006). Letdowns, wake-up calls, and constructed preferences: People's responses to fuel and wildfire risks. Journal of Forestry, 104, 173-181.

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.

501 Arvai, J., & Gregory, R. (2003). Testing alternative decision approaches for identifying cleanup priorities at contaminated sites. Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 1469-1476.

484 Flynn, J. (2003). Nuclear stigma. In N. Pidgeon, R. E. Kasperson, & P. Slovic (Eds.), The social amplification of risk (pp. 326-352). UK: Cambridge University Press.

447 MacGregor, D. G. (2003). Public perception of Y2K: Social amplification and risk adaptation: Or, "how I learned to stop worrying and love Y2K." In N. Pidgeon, R. Kasperson, & P. Slovic (Eds.), The social amplification of risk (pp. 243-261) London: Cambridge University Press.

505 Finucane, M. L. (2002). Mad cows, mad corn, & mad money: Applying what we know about the perceived risk of technologies to the perceived risk of securities. The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, 3, 236-243.

483 Finucane, M.L. (2002). Mad cows, mad corn and mad communities: The role of socio-cultural factors in the perceived risk of genetically-modified food. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 61, 31-37.

466 Gregory, R.S., & Satterfield, T.A. (2002). Beyond perception: The experience of risk and stigma in community contexts. Risk Analysis, 22(2), 347-358.

443 Satterfield, T.A. (2000). Risk, remediation and the stigma of a technological accident in an African-American community. Human Ecology Review, 7(1), 1-11.

379 Slovic, P., Flynn, J., Mertz, C. K., Poumadere, M., & Mays, C. (2000). Nuclear power and the public: A comparative study of risk perception in France and the United States. In O. Renn & B. Rohrmann (Eds.), Cross-cultural risk perception: A survey of empirical studies (pp. 55-102). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

445 Axelrod, L. J., McDaniels, T., & Slovic, P. (1999). Perceptions of ecological risk from natural hazards. Journal of Risk Research, 2(1), 31-53.

408 Flynn, J., Slovic, P., Mertz, C. K., & Carlisle, C. (1999). Public support for earthquake risk mitigation in Portland, Oregon. Risk Analysis, 19(2), 205-216.

405 MacGregor, D. G., Slovic, P., & Race, M. S. (1998). Lay and expert perceptions of planetary protection (Report No. 98-2). Eugene, OR: Decision Research.

410 Slovic, P. (1998). The risk game. Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety Journal, 59(1), 73-77. Reprinted in Journal of Hazardous Materials, 86 (2001), 17-24.

364 DeWispelare, A. R., Herren, L. T., & Clemen, R. T. (1995). The use of probability elicitation in the high-level nuclear waste regulation program. International Journal of Forecasting, 11, 5-24.

373 Krewski, D., Slovic, P., Bartlett, S., Flynn, J., & Mertz, C.K. (1995). Health risk perception in Canada I: Rating hazards, sources of information and responsibility for health protection. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 1(2), 117-132.

311 MacGregor, D. G., Slovic, P., & Morgan, M. G. (1994). Perception of risks from electromagnetic fields: A psychometric evaluation of a risk-communication approach. Risk Analysis, 14(5), 815-828.

264 Slovic, P., Layman, M., Kraus, N., Flynn, J., Chalmers, J., & Gesell, G. (1991). Perceived risk, stigma, and potential economic impacts of a high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Risk Analysis, 11, 683-696.

272 Gregory, R. (1989). Improving risk communication: Questions of content and intent. In W. Leiss (Ed.), Prospects and problems in risk communication (pp. 71-80). Ontario, Canada: University of Waterloo.

242 Furby, L., Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B., & Gregory, R. (1988). Public perceptions of electric power transmission lines. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 8, 19-43.

190 Fischhoff, B., Svenson, O., & Slovic, P. (1987). Active responses to environmental hazards: Perceptions and decision making. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 1089-1133). New York: Wiley.

249 Hohenemser, C., Goble, R., Kasperson, J. X., Kasperson, R. E., Kates, R. W., Collins, P., Goldman, A., Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B., Lichtenstein, S., & Layman, M. (1986). Methods for analyzing and comparing technological hazards. In V. T. Covello, J. Menkes, & J. Mumpower (Eds.), Contemporary issues in risk analysis: Vol. 1: Risk evaluation and management (pp. 249-274). New York: Plenum.

178 Hohenemser, C., Kates, R. W., & Slovic, P. (1983). The nature of technological hazard. Science, 220, 378-384.

49 Slovic, P., Kunreuther, H., & White, G. F. (1974). Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards. In G. F. White (Ed.), Natural hazards: Local, national, global (pp. 187-205). New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted as chapter 1 of P. Slovic (Ed.), The perception of risk (pp. 1-31). London: Earthscan Publications, 2000.

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