The feeling of risk : new perspectives on risk perception / Paul Slovic
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TextPublication details: London : Earthscan Publications, 2010Description: xxvii, 425 p. 23 cmISBN: - 9781849711487
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| 153.7 WAR The Philosophy of perception / | 153.7 WEL Perceptual modification : | 153.75 HIN The Psychology of interpersonal perception / | 153.75 SLO The feeling of risk : | 153.75 SLO The feeling of risk : | 153.752 SID Orienting and habituation : | 153.753 COH Psychological time in health and disease / |
The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century. In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the elements of knowledge, cognitive skill, and communication necessary for good decisions in the face of risk. The first section of the book looks at the difficulty of understanding risk without an emotional component, for example that disaster statistics lack emotion and thus fail to convey the true meaning of disasters and fail to motivate proper action to prevent them.
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