Psychological determinants of reactions to food risk messages

Risk Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1045-1057

  Kuttschreuter, Margôt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Food safety; Information seeking; Risk communication; Risk perception; Trust

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DISEASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; INFORMATION SEEKING; RISK COMMUNICATION; TRUST;

HEALTH RISKS;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; DIOXIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEALTH RISK; MICROORGANISM; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK PERCEPTION; SURVEY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SAFETY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748413494     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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