Basic Research
Risk Perception and Communication
Affect and Emotion in Risk
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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)
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