Toward a critical discourse on affect and risk perception

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-124

  Wardman, Jamie K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744465504     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669870500454773     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Bandura, A. (1977) Social Learning Theory (New York: General Learning Press).
2. Chaiken, S. and Trope, Y. (1999) Dual-Process Theories in Social Psychology (New York: Guilford).
3. nd ed.) (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum).
4. Damasio, A. R. (1994) Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Avon).
5. Devos-Comby, L. and Salovey, P. (2002) Applying persuasion strategies to alter HIV-relevant thoughts and behavior, Review of General Psychology, 6(3), pp. 287-304.
6. Epstein, S. (1994) Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious, American Psychologist, 49, pp. 709-724.
7. Festinger, L. (1954) A theory of social comparison processes, Human Relations, 7, pp. 117-40.
8. Finucane, M. L., Alhakami, A., Slovic, P. and Johnson, S. M. (2000) The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, pp. 1-17.
9. Fischhoff, B. (1998) Diagnosing stigma, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 59, pp. 47-48.
10. Fischhoff, B. (2005a) Decision research strategies, Health Psychology, 21, pp. S1-S8.
11. Fischhoff, B. (2005b) Risk Analysis - By the People. President's message, SRA RISK newsletter, Third Quarter, Society for Risk Analysis.
12. Fischhoff, B., de Bruin, W. B., Perrin, W. and Downs, J. (2004) Travel risks in a time of terror: Judgments and choices, Risk Analysis, 24(5), pp. 1301-1309.
13. Fischhoff, B., Slovic, P., Lichtenstein, S., Read, S. and Combs, B. (1978) How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes toward technological risks and benefits, Policy Sciences, 9, pp. 127-152.
14. Forgas, J. P. (1995) Mood and judgement: The affect infusion model (AIM), Psychological Bulletin, 23, pp. 1100-1110.
15. Freudenberg, W. R. (1993) Risk and recreancy: Weber, the division of labor, and the rationality of risk perceptions, Social Forces, 71(4), pp. 909-32.
16. Griffin, J., Neuwirth, K., Dunwoody, S. and Giese, J. (2004) Information sufficiency and risk communication, Media Psychology, (6), pp. 23-61.
17. Hsee, C. K. and Kunreuther, H. C. (2000) The affection effect in insurance decisions, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 20, pp. 41-159.
18. Klein, W. M. (1997) Objective standards are not enough: Affective, self-evaluative, and behavioral responses to social comparison information, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, pp. 763-774.
19. Lerner, J. S., Gonzalez, R. M., Small, D. A. and Fischhoff, B. (2003) Effects of fear and anger on perceived risks of terrorism. A national field experiment, Psychological Science, 14, pp. 144-150.
20. Lerner, J. S. and Keltner, D. (2000) Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgment and choice, Cognition and Emotion, 14, pp. 473-493.
21. Lerner, J. S. and Keltner, D. (2001) Fear, anger, and risk, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(1), pp. 146-159.
22. Loewenstein, G. F., Weber, E. U., Hsee, C. K. and Welch, E. S. (2001) Risk as feelings, Psychological Bulletin, 127(2), pp. 267-286.
23. Loewenstein, G. and Lerner, J. S. (2003) The role of affect in decision making, in: R. Davidson, K. Scherer & H. Goldsmith (Eds) Handbook of Affective Science, pp. 619-642 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
24. Löfstedt, R. E. (2005) Risk Management in Post-trust Societies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
25. Lopes, L. L. (1987) Between hope and fear: The psychology of risk, in: B. Leonard (Ed.) Advances in Experimental Psychology, Vol 20, pp. 255-295 (San Diego, CA: Academic Press).
26. McDaniels, T. L. (1998) Ten propositions for untangling descriptive and prescriptive lessons in risk perception findings, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 59, pp. 129-134.
27. Parkinson, B. (1996) Emotions are social, British Journal of Psychology, 87, pp. 663-683.
28. Peters, E. M., Burraston, B. and Mertz, C. K. (2004) An emotion-based model of risk perception and stigma susceptibility: Cognitive appraisals of emotion, affective reactivity, worldviews, and risk perceptions in the generation of technological stigma, Risk Analysis, 24(5), pp. 1349-1368.
29. Pidgeon, N. F., Hood, C., Jones, D., Turner, B. and Gibson, R. (1992) Risk Perception, Chapter 5 of Risk - Analysis, Perception and Management: Report of a Royal Society Study Group, London, The Royal Society, pp. 89-134.
30. Reber, A. (1985) The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology.
31. Ruiter, R. A. C., Verplanken, B., Kok, G. and Werrij, M. Q. (2003) The role of coping appraisal in reactions to fear appeals: Do we need threat information?, Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 8 (4), pp. 465-474.
32. Sjöberg, L. (2006) Will the real meaning of affect please stand up?, Journal of Risk Research, 9(2), pp. 101-108.
33. Slovic, P. (1993) Perceived risk, trust, and democracy, Risk Analysis, 13(6), pp. 675-82.
34. Slovic, P., Finucane, M., Peters, E. and MacGregor, D. G. (2002) The affect heuristic, in: T. Gilovich, D. Griffin & D. Kahneman (Eds) Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment, pp. 397-420 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press).
35. Slovic, P., Finucane, M., Peters, E. and MacGregor, D. G. (2004) Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: Some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality, Risk Analysis, 24(2), pp. 311-322.
36. Smith, C. A. and Ellsworth, P. C. (1985) Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 48, pp. 813-838.
37. Townsend, E. and Canydoell, S. (2004) Psychological delerminants of willingness to taste and purchase genetically modified food, Risk Analysis, 24(5), pp. 1385-1393.
38. Wardman, J. K. (in press) Risk as behaviour, Journal of Risk Research, (forthcoming).
39. Wilson, R. S. and Arvai, J. L. (2006) When less is more: How affect influences preferences when comparing low and high-risk options, Journal of Risk Research, 9(2), pp. 165-178.
40. Witte, K. and Allen, M. (2000) A meta-analysis of fear appeals: Implications for effective public health campaigns, Health Education and Behaviour, 27, pp. 591-615.
41. Zajonc, R. B. (1980) Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences, American Psychologist, 35, pp. 151-175.