Basic Research
Risk Perception and Communication
Risk Communication
748 Burns, W. J., Reilly, C., & Slovic, P. (2011, December). The attack on Flight 253, the Haiti earthquake, and the Japanese disaster: A longitudinal look at emotional reactions, risk-related behaviors, and support for policy measures. The CIP Report, pp. 22-24, 34.
732 Gregory, R., Peters, E., & Slovic, P. (2011). Making decisions about prescription drugs: A study of doctor-patient communication. Health, Risk, and Society. 13, 347.
685 Dieckmann, N. F., Mauro, R., & Slovic, P. (2010). The effects of presenting imprecise probabilities in intelligence forecasts. Risk Analysis. 30, 987-1001.
688 Fraenkel, L., & Peters, E. (2010). Patients' reaction to the disclosure of rare dreaded adverse events. Patient Education and Counseling. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.014.
678 Leiserowitz, A. A. (2010). Risk perceptions and behavior. In S. H. Schneider, A. Rosencranz, M. D. Mastrandrea, & K. Kuntz-Dunseti (Eds.), Climate change science and policy (pp. 175-184). Washington, DC: Island Press.
690 Lipkus, I. M., Peters, E., Kimmick, G., Liotcheva, V., & Marcom, P. (2010). Breast cancer patients' treatment expectations after exposure to the decision aid program Adjuvant Online: The influence of numeracy. Medical Decision Making, 30, 464-473.
689 Schroy, P. C., III, Emmons, K., Peters, E., Glick, J. T., Robinson, P. A., Lydotes, M. A., . . . Heeren, T. C. (2010). The impact of a novel computer-based decision aid on shared decision making for colorectal cancer screening: A randomized trial. Medical Decision Making. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0272989X10369007.
733 Slovic, P., & Västfjäll, D. (2010). Affect, moral intuition, and risk. Psychological Inquiry, 21, 387–398.
696 Wilson, R. S., & Arvai, J. L. (2010). Why less is more: Exploring affect-based value judgment. Journal of Risk Research. 13, 399-409.
662 Dieckmann, N. F., Slovic, P., & Peters, E. M. (2009). The use of narrative evidence and explicit likelihood by decisionmakers varying in numeracy. Risk Analysis, 29, 1473-1488.
677 Hart, P. S., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2009). Finding the teachable moment: An analysis of information-seeking behavior on global warming related websites during the release of The Day After Tomorrow. Environmental Communication, 3, 355-366.
639 Lipkus, I. M., & Peters, E. (2009). Understanding the role of numeracy in health: Proposed theoretical framework and practical insights. Health Education and Behavior, 36, 1065-1081.
637 McComas, K. A., Arvai, J., & Besley, J. C. (2009). Linking public participation and decision making through risk communication. In R. L. Heath & H. D. O'Hair (Eds.), Handbook of risk and crisis communication (pp. 364-385). New York: Routledge.
683 Reyna, V. F., Nelson, W. L., Han, P. K., & Dieckmann, N. F. (2009). How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 943-973.
610 Green, J., Peters, E., Mertz, C. K., & Hibbard, J. H. (2008). Comprehension and choice of a consumer-directed health plan: An experimental study. The American Journal of Managed Care, 14, 369-376. Available here.
729 Johnson, B. B. (2008). Public views on drinking water standards as risk indicators. Risk Analysis, 28, 1515–1530.
651 Maibach, E. W., Roser-Renouf, C., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2008). Communication and marketing as climate change-intervention assets: A public health perspective. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35, 488-500.
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.
612 Arvai, J. L. (2007). Rethinking of risk communication: Lessons from the decision sciences. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 3, 173-185.
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.
596 Failing, L., Gregory, R., & Harstone, M. (2007). Integrating science and local knowledge in environmental risk management: A decision-focused approach. Ecological Economics, 64, 47-60.
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
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.
682 Marx S., Weber, E., Orlove, B., Leiserowitz, A., Krantz, D., Roncilo, C., & Phillips, J. (2007). Communication of mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information. Global Environmental Change, 17, 47-58.
569 Slovic, P., Peters, E., Grana, J., Berger, S., & Dieck, G. S. (2007). Risk perception of prescription drugs: Results of a national survey. Drug Information Journal, 41(1), 81-100.
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.
701 Johnson, B. B., & Chess, C. (2006). Evaluating public responses to environmental trend indicators. Science Communication, 28, 64–92.
700 Johnson, B. B., & Chess, C. (2006). From the inside out: Environmental agency views about communications with the public. Risk Analysis, 26, 1395–1407.
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.
550 Peters, E., Slovic, P., Hibbard, J. H., & Tusler, M. (2006). Why worry? Worry, risk perceptions, and willingness to act to reduce medical errors. Health Psychology, 25, 144-152.
588 Ropeik, D., & Slovic, P. (2006). Risk communication: A neglected tool in protecting public health. Eurohealth, 12(3), 40-42. Retrieved December 24, 2008, from http://www.euro.who.int/Document/Obs/Eurohealth12_3.pdf
526 Finucane, M. L., & Holup, J. L. (2005). Psychosocial and cultural factors affecting the perceived risk of genetically modified food: An overview of the literature. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 1603-1612.
704 Johnson, B. B. (2005). Testing and expanding a model of cognitive processing of risk information. Risk Analysis, 25, 631–650.
642 Slovic, P. (2005). Review of "Risk in perspective: Insight and humor in the age of risk management" by Kimberly M. Thompson. Risk Analysis, 25, 493.
516 Slovic, S., & Slovic, P. (2004/2005). Numbers and nerves: Toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk. Whole Terrain, 13, 14-18.
708 Johnson, B. B. (2004). Risk comparisons, conflict, and risk acceptability claims. Risk Analysis, 24, 131–145.
709 Johnson, B. B. (2004). Varying risk comparison elements: Effects on public reactions. Risk Analysis, 24, 103–114.
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.
475 Satterfield, T. A., Mertz, C. K., & Slovic, P. (2004). Discrimination, vulnerability, and justice in the face of risk. Risk Analysis, 24, 115-129.
514 Zaksek, M., & Arvai, J. L. (2004). Towards improved communication about wildland fire: Mental models research to identify information needs for natural resource management. Risk Analysis, 24, 1503-1514.
533 Arvai, J. L. (2003). Using risk communication to disclose the outcome of a participatory decision-making process: Effects on the perceived acceptability of risk-policy decisions. Risk Analysis, 23, 281-289.
495 Flynn, J., & MacGregor, D. G. (2003). Commentary on hormesis and public risk communication: Is there a basis for public discussions? Human & Experimental Toxicology, 22, 31-34. Reprinted from BELLE Newsletter, 2002, 11(1), 28-30, available on-line at http://www.belleonline.com/newsletters/volume11/vol11-1.pdf.
488 Gregory, R., Fischhoff, B., Thorne, S., & Butte, G. (2003). A multi-channel stakeholder consultation process for transmission deregulation. Energy Policy, 31, 1291-1299.
713 Johnson, B. B. (2003). Further notes on public response to uncertainty in risks and science. Risk Analysis, 23, 781–789.
714 Johnson, B. B. (2003). Are some risk comparisons more effective under conflict?: A replication and extension of Roth, et al. Risk Analysis, 23, 767–780.
716 Johnson, B. B. (2003). Communicating air quality information: Experimental evaluation of alternative formats. Risk Analysis, 23, 91–103.
711 Johnson, B. B. (2003). Do reports on drinking water quality affect customers' concerns? Experiments in report content. Risk Analysis, 23, 985–998.
710 Johnson, B. B., & Chess, C. (2003). How reassuring are risk comparisons to pollution standards and emission limits? Risk Analysis, 23, 999–1007.
712 Johnson, B. B., & Chess, C. (2003). Communicating worst-case scenarios: Neighbors' views of industrial accident management. Risk Analysis, 23, 829–840.
641 Slovic, P. (2003, December). A difficult balance: Risk perception and risk communication in an age of terrorism. Paper prepared for the Terrorism Task Force of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Download here; 552 KB, pdf)
466 Gregory, R. S., & Satterfield, T. A. (2002). Beyond perception: The experience of risk and stigma in community contexts. Risk Analysis, 22, 347-358.
717 Johnson, B. B. (2002). Stability and inoculation of risk comparison' effects under conflict: Replicating and extending the 'Asbestos Jury' study by Slovic, et al. Risk Analysis, 22, 777–788.
492 Monahan, J., Heilbrun, K., Silver, E., Nabors, E., Bone, J., & Slovic, P. (2002). Communicating violence risk: Frequency formats, vivid outcomes, and forensic settings. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 1, 121-126.
470 Arvai, J. L., Gregory, R., & McDaniels, T. L. (2001). Testing a structured decision approach: Value focused thinking for deliberative risk communication. Risk Analysis, 21, 1065-1076.
535 Arvai, J. L. (2000). Evaluating NASA's role in risk communication process surrounding space policy decisions. Space Policy, 16, 61-69.
457 Finucane, M. L. (2000, November). Improving quarantine risk communication: Understanding public risk perceptions (Report No. 00-7). Eugene, OR: Decision Research.
374 Slovic, P. (2000). What does it mean to know a cumulative risk? Adolescents’ perceptions of short-term and long-term consequences of smoking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, 259-266.
440 Slovic, P., Monahan, J., & MacGregor, D. G. (2000). Violence risk assessment and risk communication: The effects of using actual cases, providing instruction, and employing probability versus frequency formats. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 271-296.
723 Johnson, B. B. (1999). Ethical issues in risk communication: Continuing the discussion. Risk Analysis, 19, 335–348.
404 MacGregor, D. G., Slovic, P., & Malmfors, T. (1999). "How exposed is exposed enough?" Lay inferences about chemical exposure. Risk Analysis, 19(4), 649-659.
397 Slovic, P., & Gregory, R. (1999). Risk analysis, decision analysis, and the social context for risk decision making. In J. Shanteau, B. A. Mellers, & D. A. Schum (Eds.), Decision science and technology: Reflections on the contributions of Ward Edwards (pp. 353-365). Boston: Kluwer Academic.
411 Slovic, P. (1998). If hormesis exists . . . Implications for risk perception and communication. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 17, 439-440.
402 Wagner, R. G., Flynn, J., Gregory, R., Mertz, C. K., & Slovic, P. (1998). Acceptable practices in Ontario’s forests: Differences between the public and forestry professionals. New Forests, 16, 139-154.
354 Johnson, B. B., & Slovic, P. (1995). Presenting uncertainty in health risk assessment: Initial studies of its effects on risk perception and trust. Risk Analysis, 15(4), 485-494.
345 Slovic, P., Malmfors, T., Krewski, D., Mertz, C. K., Neil, N., & Bartlett, S. (1995). Intuitive toxicology II: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks in Canada. Risk Analysis, 15(6), 661-675.
320 Flynn, J., Slovic, P., & Mertz, C. K. (1993). The Nevada Initiative: A risk communication fiasco. Risk Analysis, 13(5), 497-502.
319 Slovic, P. (1993). Perceived risk, trust, and democracy. Risk Analysis, 13, 675-682.
301 Kraus, N., Malmfors, T., & Slovic, P. (1992). Intuitive toxicology: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks. Risk Analysis, 12, 215-232.
300 Gregory, R., Kunreuther, H., Easterling, D., & Richards, K. (1991). Incentives policies to site hazardous waste facilities. Risk Analysis, 11, 667-675.
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.
71 Dawes, R. M., McTavish, J., & Shaklee, H. (1977). Behavior, communication, and assumptions about other people's behavior in a commons dilemma situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 1-11.