Communicating Risks: Examining Hazard and Outrage in Multiple Contexts

Risk Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1872-1886

  Lachlan, Kenneth ^a   Spence, Patric R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard; Measurement; Outrage; Psychometrics; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDIES; LABORATORY STUDIES; MEASUREMENT MODEL; MULTIPLE CONTEXTS; OUTRAGE; PERCEPTIONS OF RISKS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK COMMUNICATION;

RISK PERCEPTION;

HEURISTICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK;

EID: 78649783634     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01511.x     Document Type: Article

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