Applied Research
Environment
Natural and Technological Hazards
649 Svenson, O. (2009). Driving speed changes and subjective estimates of time savings, accident risks and braking. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 543-560.
614 Arvai, J., Gregory, R., & Zaksek, M. (2008). Improving management decisions. In W. E. Martin, C. Raish, & B. Kent (Eds.), Wildfire risk: Human perceptions and management implications (pp. 173-193). Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.
640 Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Slovic, P., Gastil, J., & Cohen, G. (2008). Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology. Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 87–90.
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). The New York Academy of Sciences.
595 Peters, E. (2008). Preferred data visualization techniques may not lead to comprehension and use of hazard information [Review of the chapter “Visualizing uncertainty in natural hazards”]. In A. Bostrom, S. P. French, & S. J. Gottlieb (Eds.), Risk assessment, modeling and decision support: Strategic directions (pp. 296-306). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
605 Västfjäll, D., Peters, E., & Slovic, P. (2008). Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 64-72.
652 Broad, K., Leiserowitz, A. A., Weinkle, J., & Steketee, M. (2007). Misinterpretations of the "cone of uncertainty" in Florida during the 2004 hurricane season. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 651-667.
616 Burns, W. J., & Slovic, P. (2007). The diffusion of fear: Modeling community response to a terrorist strike. JDMS: The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, 4, 298-317.
629 Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Slovic, P., Gastil, J., & Cohen, G. L. (2007, October). The second national risk and culture study: Making sense of—and making progress in—the American culture war of fact (GWU Legal Studies Researach Paper No. 370). Download
587 Slovic, P. (2007). Perception of risk from asteroid impact. In P. T. Bobrowsky & H. Rickman (Eds.), Comet/Asteroid impacts and human society: An interdisciplinary approach (pp. 369-382). Berlin, Germany: Springer
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.
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.
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.
466 Gregory, R. S., & Satterfield, T. A. (2002). Beyond perception: The experience of risk and stigma in community contexts. Risk Analysis, 22, 347-358.
459 MacGregor, D. G., & Slovic, P. (2000). Perceived risk and driving behavior: Lessons for improving traffic safety in emerging market countries. In H. von Holst, A. Nygren, & A. E. Anderson (Eds.), Transportation, traffic safety and health - Human behavior (pp. 37-54). Heidelberg, Germany: Spring-Verlag Berlin.
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. Download the PDF.
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.
393 Slovic, P. (1997). Perception and acceptance of risk from radiation exposure in space flight. In D. Moeller (Ed.), Acceptability of risk from radiation: Application to human space flight (pp. 101-112). Bethesda, MD: NCRP.
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.
347 MacGregor, D., & Slovic, P. (1995). The planetary exploration survey: What society members think about planetary protection. Planetary Report, XV(2), 4-6.
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.
300 Gregory, R., Kunreuther, H., Easterling, D., & Richards, K. (1991). Incentives policies to site hazardous waste facilities. Risk Analysis, 11, 667-675.
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.
115 Fischhoff, B., Hohenemser, C., Kasperson, R. E., & Kates, R. W. (1978). Can hazard management be improved? Environment, 20(7), 16-20, 32-37.
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.