Rating the risks.

Author(s)
Slovic, P. Fischhoff, B. & Lichtenstein, S.
Year
Abstract

Cognitive limitations, coupled with the anxieties by facing life as a gamble, cause uncertainty to be denied, risks to be distorted, and statements of fact to be believed with unwarranted confidence. Perceived risk is influenced by the imaginability and memorability of the hazard. People may, therefore, not have valid perceptions even for familiar risks.

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Library number
B 15895 fo / 10 / 83 /
Source

Environment, Vol. 21 (1979), No. 3 (April), p. 14-20 + p. 36-39, fig., ref.

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