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Slovic, Paul; Weinstein, Malcolm S.; Lichtenstein, Sarah
(1967)
102 undergraduates, working in pairs, selected bets for themselves and bets for the "other subject" to play. It was found that persons chose essentially the same probability of winning for the other person as for themselves, ...
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Slovic, Paul
(Journal of Applied Psychology, 1969)
This study illustrates an analysis-of-variance technique for describing the use of information by persons making complex judgments. Ss were two stockbrokers who rated the growth potential of stocks on the basis
of 11 ...
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah
(Journal of Experimental Psycholog, 1971)
Subjects in 3 experiments chose their preferred bet from pairs of
bets, and later bid for each bet separately. In each pair, one bet had· a higher probability ·of winning (P bet); the other offered more to win
(S bet). ...
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Slovic, Paul
(Journal of Finance, 1972)
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Slovic, Paul
(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972)
An effort was made to construct two structurally similar risk-taking tasks in order to evaluate inter-task consistency of individual differences. Only the mode of response differed between tasks. In one task, subjects chose ...
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Slovic, Paul; Bauman, W. Scott; Fleissner, Dan
(1972)
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Slovic, Paul
(Oregon Research Institute, 1972-04)
Recent experimental evidence is marshalled in support of the position that man's limited memory, attention, and reasoning capabilities lead him to apply simple strain-reducing cognitive strategies for processing information ...
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Slovic, Paul; MacPhillamy, Douglas
(Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1974)
Subjects compared pairs of students with respect to potential college GPA. Both students had scores on one common dimension (e.g., Englist skills) and a unique dimension (e.g., Quantitative Aptitude for Student A and Need ...
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Slovic, Paul; Kunreuther, Howard; White, Gilbert F.
(Earthscan Publications, 1974-01)
The distress and disruption caused by extreme natural events has stimulated considerable interest in understanding and improving the decision-making processes that determine a manager's adjustment to natural hazards. ...
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Dawes, Robyn M.; Shaklee, Harriet; Talarowski, F.
(Decision Research, 1976)
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch
(1977)
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Fischhoff, Baruch; Shaklee, Harriet
(Decision Research, 1977)
A series of three experiments investigated the effect of information
about one possible cause of an event on inferences regarding another
possible cause. Experiment 1 showed that the presence of a second
possible cause ...
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Kunreuther, Howard; Slovic, Paul
(American Economic Review, 1978)
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch; Layman, Mark; Combs, Barbara
(1978)
A series of experiments studied how people judge the frequency of death from various causes. The judgments exhibited a highly consistent but systematically biased subjective scale of frequency. Two kinds of bias were ...
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Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah
(Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1978)
Motorists' reluctance to wear seat belts is examined in light of research showing (a) that protective behavior is influenced more by the probability of a hazard than by the magnitude of its consequences and (b) that people ...
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Slovic, Paul
(1978)
What determines whether people will protect themselves against the severe losses that might arise from some low-probability hazard? What factors underlie the perception and acceptability of technological risks? The answers ...
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch
(1979)
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Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah
(Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 1979)
The management and regulation of high-risk technologies need to be based on an understanding of the ways in which people think about risk. Without such understanding, well-intended laws and policies may be ineffective, or ...
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch
(1980)
Designers of programs for informing the public about radiation hazards need to consider the difficulties inherent in communicating highly technical information about risk. To be effective, information campaigns must be ...
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Slovic, Paul; Brehmer, Berndt
(1980)
When people attempt to integrate multiple cues into a single judgement, does the cognitive load produced by the integration process lead to simplification of the cue-judgement relationships? Three experiments tested the ...
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