Basic Research
Risk Perception and Communication
Risk Communication
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612 Arvai, J. L. (2007). Rethinking of risk communication: Lessons from the decision sciences. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 3, 173-185.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
516 Slovic, S., & Slovic, P. (2004/2005). Numbers and nerves: Toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk. Whole Terrain, 13, 14-18.
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(1), 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.
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.
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(6), 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.
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.
411 Slovic, P. (1998). If hormesis exists . . . Implications for risk perception and communication. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 17, 439-440.
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