Comment: Are trivial risks the greatest risks of all?

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 281-288

  Slovic, Paul ^a  

^a DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 85013051147     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136698799376727     Document Type: Note

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