Trust, emotion, sex, politics, and science: Surveying the risk- assessment battlefield

Risk Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 689-701

  Slovic, Paul ^a  

^a DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Risk; Risk assessment; Risk communication; Risk management; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

RISK COMMUNICATION; RISK CONTROL; RISK DECISION MAKING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFFECT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0033178111     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1999.tb00439.x     Document Type: Article

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