Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - The Feeling of risk : new perspectives on risk perception

MAP20110016388

The Feeling of risk : new perspectives on risk perception / Paul Slovic. — London [etc.] : Earthscan, 2010

XIII, 425 p. ; 23 cm.

Sumario: The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles -- Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality -- Attentional mechanisms in the generation of sympathy -- Sympathy and callousness: the impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims -- The more who die, the less we care -- Numbers and nerves: toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk -- Cigarette smokers: rational actors or rational fools? -- Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster -- Gender, race and perceived risk: the "white-male" effect -- Discrimination, vulnerability and justice in the face of risk -- Culture and identity-protective cognition: explaining the white-male effect in risk perception -- Fear of democracy: a cultural evaluation of sunstein on risk -- Risk lived, stigma experienced -- Public perception of the risk of blood transfusion -- Expert and public perception of risk from Biotechnology -- Risk perception of prescription drugs: results of a national survey -- Predicting and modelling public response to a terrorist strike -- Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of Nanotechnology -- The social amplification of risk: assessing fifteen years of research and theory -- Numeracy skill and the communication, comprehension and use of risk-benefit information -- Public understanding of the illnesses caused by cigarette smoking -- The impact and acceptability of Canadian-style cigarette warning labels among US smokers and nonsmokers

ISBN 978-1-84971-148-7

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