Sección: LibrosTítulo: The Perception of risk / Paul SlovicAutor: Slovic, PaulPublicación: London : Earthscan , 2000Descripción física: XXXVII, 473 p. ; 23 cmSerie: (Risk, society and policy series)Notas: Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards -- Cognitive processes and societal risk taking -- Preference for insuring against probable small losses: insurances implications -- Accident probabilities and seat belt usage -- How safe is safe enough? a psychometric study of attitudes toward technological risks and benefits -- Rating the risks -- Weighing the risks: which risks are acceptable? -- Facts and fears: understanding perceived risk -- Response mode, framing and information-processing effects in risk assessment -- The nature of technological hazard -- Informing and educating the public about risk -- Perception of risk from automobile safety defects -- Perception of risk -- The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework -- The perception and management of therapeutic risk -- Perception of risk from radiation -- Perceived risk, trust and the politics of nuclear waste -- Intuitive toxicology: expert and lay judgments of chemical risks -- Perceived risk, trust and democracy -- Adolescent health-threatening and health-enhancing behaviors: a study of Word Association and Imagery -- Technological stigma -- Probability, danger and coercion: a study of risk perception and decision-making in mental health law -- Do adolescent smokers know the risks? -- Insensitivity to the value of a human life: a study of psychophysical numbing -- Trust, emotion, sex, politics and science: surveying the risk-assessment battlefield -- The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefitsMateria / lugar / evento: RiesgosPercepción del riesgoAspectos socialesPsicología socialSerie secundaria: Risk, society and policy seriesOtras clasificaciones: 80Números normalizados: ISBN 1-85383-527-7Derechos: In Copyright (InC)Referencias externas: