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Gonzalez, Nichel; Svenson, Ola; Ekstrom, Magnus; Kristrom, Bengt; Nilsson, Mats E.
(PLOS, 2022-03-16)
Measurements of human attitudes and perceptions have traditionally used numerical point judgments. In the present study, we compared conventional point estimates of weight with an interval judgment method. Participants ...
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Kogut, Tehila; Pittarello, Andrea; Slovic, Paul
(Sage, 2023-09)
In three studies, with samples from different countries (the United States and Israel) and religions (Christians and Jews), we found that individual levels of fear of death significantly predicted lower willingness to ...
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Gregory, Robin; Kozak, Robert; Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume; Nawaz, Sara; Satterfield, Terre; Hagerman, Shannon
(Springer Nature B.V., 2021-05-03)
Shifts in species ranges and viability introduced by climate change are creating difficult challenges for scientists and citizens. In many cases, the seriousness of threats to endangered species is forcing policy makers ...
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Dieckmann, Nathan F.; Gregory, Robin; Satterfield, Terre; Mayorga, Marcus; Slovic, Paul
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021-04-22)
Social scientists and community advocates have expressed con- cerns that many social and cultural impacts important to citizens are given insufficient weight by decision makers in public policy decision-making. In two large ...
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Bruine de Bruin, Wandi; Slovic, Paul
(The Conversation, 2021-12-20)
People who are bad with numbers are more likely to experience financial difficulties than people who are good with numbers. That’s according to our analyses of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll. In this World ...
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Slovic, Paul; Bruine de Bruin, Wandi
(PLOS, 2021-11-22)
Numeracy refers to the ability to use numbers, including converting percentages (e.g., 10%) into absolute frequencies (e.g., 1 in 10). Studies have suggested that numeracy is correlated to financial outcomes, suggesting ...
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Andersson, Per A.; Erlandsson, Arvid; Västfjäll, Daniel
(Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2021-03-01)
Knowing the descriptive norm concerning others' prosociality could affect your behavior, but would you seek out or avoid such knowledge? This high-powered preregistered experiment explores the effect of both forced and ...
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Riley, Shawn J.; Gregory, Robin S.
(John Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Wildlife professionals can more effectively manage species and social-ecological systems by fully considering the role that humans play in every stage of the process. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management provides the ...
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Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Slovic, Paul; Wagenaar, Willem A.
(1990)
A Societal Decision Maker (SDM) is a person who makes risky decisions on behalf of others. Most of the time, such decisions should be based on the wishes and beliefs pf the affected people. This paper explores a few cases ...
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Slovic, Paul; Layman, Mark; Flynn, James
(1993)
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Slovic, Paul; Rosa, Eugene A.; Kunreuther, Howard; Desvousges, William H.
(1993)
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Slovic, Paul; Peters, Ellen; Finucane, Melissa; MacGregor, Donald G.
(2005)
Risk is perceived and acted on in 2 fundamental ways. Risk as feelings refers to individuals' fast, instinctive, and intuitive reactions to danger. Risk as analysis brings logic, reason, and scientific deliberation to bear ...
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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; 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; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah
(1986)
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Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah; Fischhoff, Baruch
(1979)
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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; Fischhoff, Baruch
(1983)
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Slovic, Paul
(1997)
There are a number of factors that influence how a person views a particular risk. These include whether the risk is judged to be voluntary and/or controllable, whether the effects are immediate or delayed, and the magnitude ...
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