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Slovic, Paul: Recent submissions
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2012-05)Subjects who judged speed in a driving scenario overestimated how fast they could decelerate when speeding compared to when keeping within the speed limit (Svenson, 2009). The purpose of the present studies were to replicate ...
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(Society for Neuroscience, 2013-10-23)The “identifiable victim effect” refers to peoples’ tendency to preferentially give to identified versus anonymous victims of misfortune, and has been proposed to partly depend on affect. By soliciting charitable donations ...
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(Yale Law School, 2011)The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2011-11-15)Classical economic approaches to the study of preferences and risky choices assume that human preferences are stable and rational. However, subsequent empirical research has demonstrated that preferences are often constructed ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2016-11-30)We thank Hargis and Oppenheimer (2016) for their interesting commentary to our article (Bjälkebring et al., 2016). Age-related changes in decision making are indeed a relatively unexplored phenomenon especially when it ...
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(American Economic Association, 1990)Observed preference reversal (PR) cannot be adequately explained by violations of independence, the reduction axiom, or transitivity. The primary cause of PR is the failure of procedure invariance, especially the overpricing ...
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(Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, 1990-11)Attempts by the federal government and the nuclear industry to develop sites for disposal of high-level and low-level radioactive wastes have been stymied by public and political opposition. The record of strenuous protest ...
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(Harvard Law School, 2006-01-01)
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2007-04)Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)This paper describes a psychological phenomenon called psychic numbing that devalues lives when many are at stake and thus enables political leaders to neglect mass suffering, in violation of our professed humanitarian ...
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(Universidade de São Paulo, 2010)The essay contrasts the scientific approach to analyzing and making decisions about risk with the ways that ordinary people perceive and repsond to risk. It highlights the importance of trust as a determiner of perceived ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2011-10)Donation requests often convey numerical information about the people in need. In two studies, we investigated the effects of numeracy and presentation format on the underlying affective and cognitive mechanisms of donation ...
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(Yale Law School, 2007-10)Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2009-06)Empathic responses, such as sympathy towards others,are a key ingredient in the decision to provide help to those in need. The determinants of empathic responses are usually thought to be the vividness, similarity, and ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-12)Measuring reaction times to number comparisons is thought to reveal a processing stage in elementary numerical cognition linked to internal, imprecise representations of number magnitudes. These intuitive representations ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-12)Three experiments demonstrate how the processing of negations is contingent on the evaluation context in which the negative information is presented. In addition, the strategy used to process the negations induced different ...
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(Yale Law School, 2007-03)Despite knowing little about nanotechnology (so to speak), members of the public readily form opinions on whether its potential risks outweigh its potential benefits. On what basis are they forming their judgments? How ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-01)Environmental events such as natural disasters may influence the public’s affective reactions and decisions. Shortly after the 2004 Tsunami disaster we assessed how affect elicited by thinking about this disaster influenced ...
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(Harvard Law School, 2006)What are the respective contributions of culture and rationality to risk perception? Do disagreements between lay persons and experts (and among members of both groups) originate in conflicting values, differing abilities ...
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The Arithmetic of Emotion: Integration of Incidental and Integral Affect in Judgments and Decisions (Frontiers Media, 2016-03-08)Research has demonstrated that two types of affect have an influence on judgment and decision making: incidental affect (affect unrelated to a judgment or decision such as a mood) and integral affect (affect that is part ...
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