Cultural worldviews and environmental risk perceptions: Ameta-analysis

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 249-258

  Xue, Wen ^a   Hine, Donald W ^a   Loi, Natasha M ^a   Thorsteinsson, Einar B ^a   Phillips, Wendy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural cognition; Cultural theory of risk; Environmental risk; Risk perception; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907173982     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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