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Risk perception and New Age beliefs

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Sjöberg, Lennart
Risk perception and New Age beliefs / Lennart Sjöberg, Anders af Wählberg
The purpose of this article is to investigate the importance of New Age beliefs for risk perception. It does so by first reviewing the phenomenon of the rise of New Age beliefs since the 1960 and discuss the causes of these beliefs. Then the authors proceed to an empirical study where the structure of New Age and some related beliefs are investigeted and their role in accounting for risk perception is mapped
En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - New York and London : Society for Risk Analysis. - Vol. 22, nº 4, August, 2002 ; p. 751-764
1. Percepción del riesgo . 2. Nuevas tecnologías . 3. Comportamiento humano . 4. Psicosociología . 5. Análisis de riesgos . 6. Evaluación de riesgos . 7. Valoración de riesgos . 8. Métodos de análisis . 9. Gerencia de riesgos . I. Wählberg, Anders af . II. Title.