Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-72

  Västfjäll, Daniel ^a,b   Peters, Ellen ^a,c   Slovic, Paul ^a,c  

^a Decision Research   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Disaster; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349906432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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