Basic Research
Risk Perception and Communication
Risk Communication
685 Dieckmann, N. F., Mauro, R., & Slovic, P. (2010). The effects of presenting imprecise probabilities in intelligence forecasts. Risk Analysis. 30, 987-1001.
678 Leiserowitz, A. A. (2010). Risk perceptions and behavior. In S. H. Schneider, A. Rosencranz, M. D. Mastrandrea, & K. Kuntz-Dunseti (Eds.), Climate change science and policy (pp. 175-184). Washington, DC: Island Press.
662 Dieckmann, N. F., Slovic, P., & Peters, E. M. (2009). The use of narrative evidence and explicit likelihood by decisionmakers varying in numeracy. Risk Analysis, 29(10), 1473-1488.
677 Hart, P. S., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2009). Finding the teachable moment: An analysis of information-seeking behavior on global warming related websites during the release of The Day After Tomorrow. Environmental Communication, 3, 355-366.
639 Lipkus, I. M., & Peters, E. (2009). Understanding the role of numeracy in health: Proposed theoretical framework and practical insights. Health Education and Behavior, 36, 1065-1081.
637 McComas, K. A., Arvai, J., & Besley, J. C. (2009). Linking public participation and decision making through risk communication. In R. L. Heath & H. D. O'Hair (Eds.), Handbook of risk and crisis communication (pp. 364-385). New York: Routledge.
683 Reyna, V. F., Nelson, W. L., Han, P. K., & Dieckmann, N. F. (2009). How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 943-973.
610 Green, J., Peters, E., Mertz, C. K., & Hibbard, J. H. (2008). Comprehension and choice of a consumer-directed health plan: An experimental study. The American Journal of Managed Care, 14, 369-376. Available here.
651 Maibach, E. W., Roser-Renouf, C., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2008). Communication and marketing as climate change-intervention assets: A public health perspective. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35, 488-500.
594 Peters, E. (2008). Numeracy and the perception and communication of risk. In W. T. Tucker, S. Ferson, A. M. Finkel, & D. Slavin (Eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Vol. 1128. Strategies for risk communication: Evolution, evidence, experience (pp. 1-7). The New York Academy of Sciences.
595 Peters, E. (2008). Preferred data visualization techniques may not lead to comprehension and use of hazard information [Review of the chapter “Visualizing uncertainty in natural hazards”]. In A. Bostrom, S. P. French, & S. J. Gottlieb (Eds.), Risk assessment, modeling and decision support: Strategic directions (pp. 296-306). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
612 Arvai, J. L. (2007). Rethinking of risk communication: Lessons from the decision sciences. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 3, 173-185.
652 Broad, K., Leiserowitz, A. A., Weinkle, J., & Steketee, M. (2007). Misinterpretations of the "cone of uncertainty" in Florida during the 2004 hurricane season. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 651-667.
596 Failing, L., Gregory, R., & Harstone, M. (2007). Integrating science and local knowledge in environmental risk management: A decision-focused approach. Ecological Economics, 64, 47-60.
629 Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Slovic, P., Gastil, J., & Cohen, G. L. (2007, October). The second national risk and culture study: Making sense of—and making progress in—the American culture war of fact (GWU Legal Studies Researach Paper No. 370). Download
560 Leiserowitz, A. A. (2007). Communicating the risks of global warming: American risk perceptions, affective images and interpretive communities. In S. C. Moser & L. Dilling (Eds.), Creating a climate for change: Communicating climate change and facilitating social change (pp. 44-63). New York: Cambridge University Press.
569 Slovic, P., Peters, E., Grana, J., Berger, S., & Dieck, G. S. (2007). Risk perception of prescription drugs: Results of a national survey. Drug Information Journal, 41(1), 81-100.
544 Arvai, J., Gregory, R., Ohlson, D., Blackwell, B., & Gray, R. (2006). Letdowns, wake-up calls, and constructed preferences: People's responses to fuel and wildfire risks. Journal of Forestry, 104, 173-181.
566 Peters, E., Lipkus, I., & Diefenbach, M. A. (2006). The functions of affect in health communications and in the construction of health preferences. Journal of Communication, 56, S140-S162.
550 Peters, E., Slovic, P., Hibbard, J. H., & Tusler, M. (2006). Why worry? Worry, risk perceptions, and willingness to act to reduce medical errors. Health Psychology, 25, 144-152.
588 Ropeik, D., & Slovic, P. (2006). Risk communication: A neglected tool in protecting public health. Eurohealth, 12(3), 40-42. Retrieved December 24, 2008, from http://www.euro.who.int/Document/Obs/Eurohealth12_3.pdf
526 Finucane, M. L., & Holup, J. L. (2005). Psychosocial and cultural factors affecting the perceived risk of genetically modified food: An overview of the literature. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 1603-1612.
642 Slovic, P. (2005). Review of "Risk in perspective: Insight and humor in the age of risk management" by Kimberly M. Thompson. Risk Analysis, 25, 493.
516 Slovic, S., & Slovic, P. (2004/2005). Numbers and nerves: Toward an affective apprehension of environmental risk. Whole Terrain, 13, 14-18.
513 Peters, E. M., Burraston, B., & Mertz, C. K. (2004). An emotion-based model of risk perception and stigma susceptibility: Cognitive appraisals of emotion, affective reactivity, worldviews, and risk perceptions in the generation of technological stigma. Risk Analysis, 24, 1349-1367.
475 Satterfield, T. A., Mertz, C. K., & Slovic, P. (2004). Discrimination, vulnerability, and justice in the face of risk. Risk Analysis, 24, 115-129.
514 Zaksek, M., & Arvai, J. L. (2004). Towards improved communication about wildland fire: Mental models research to identify information needs for natural resource management. Risk Analysis, 24, 1503-1514.
533 Arvai, J. L. (2003). Using risk communication to disclose the outcome of a participatory decision-making process: Effects on the perceived acceptability of risk-policy decisions. Risk Analysis, 23, 281-289.
495 Flynn, J., & MacGregor, D. G. (2003). Commentary on hormesis and public risk communication: Is there a basis for public discussions? Human & Experimental Toxicology, 22, 31-34. Reprinted from BELLE Newsletter, 2002, 11(1), 28-30, available on-line at http://www.belleonline.com/newsletters/volume11/vol11-1.pdf.
488 Gregory, R., Fischhoff, B., Thorne, S., & Butte, G. (2003). A multi-channel stakeholder consultation process for transmission deregulation. Energy Policy, 31, 1291-1299.
641 Slovic, P. (2003, December). A difficult balance: Risk perception and risk communication in an age of terrorism. Paper prepared for the Terrorism Task Force of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Download here; 552 KB, pdf)
466 Gregory, R. S., & Satterfield, T. A. (2002). Beyond perception: The experience of risk and stigma in community contexts. Risk Analysis, 22, 347-358.
492 Monahan, J., Heilbrun, K., Silver, E., Nabors, E., Bone, J., & Slovic, P. (2002). Communicating violence risk: Frequency formats, vivid outcomes, and forensic settings. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 1, 121-126.
470 Arvai, J. L., Gregory, R., & McDaniels, T. L. (2001). Testing a structured decision approach: Value focused thinking for deliberative risk communication. Risk Analysis, 21, 1065-1076.
535 Arvai, J. L. (2000). Evaluating NASA's role in risk communication process surrounding space policy decisions. Space Policy, 16, 61-69.
457 Finucane, M. L. (2000, November). Improving quarantine risk communication: Understanding public risk perceptions (Report No. 00-7). Eugene, OR: Decision Research.
374 Slovic, P. (2000). What does it mean to know a cumulative risk? Adolescents’ perceptions of short-term and long-term consequences of smoking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, 259-266.
440 Slovic, P., Monahan, J., & MacGregor, D. G. (2000). Violence risk assessment and risk communication: The effects of using actual cases, providing instruction, and employing probability versus frequency formats. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 271-296.
404 MacGregor, D. G., Slovic, P., & Malmfors, T. (1999). "How exposed is exposed enough?" Lay inferences about chemical exposure. Risk Analysis, 19(4), 649-659.
397 Slovic, P., & Gregory, R. (1999). Risk analysis, decision analysis, and the social context for risk decision making. In J. Shanteau, B. A. Mellers, & D. A. Schum (Eds.), Decision science and technology: Reflections on the contributions of Ward Edwards (pp. 353-365). Boston: Kluwer Academic.
411 Slovic, P. (1998). If hormesis exists . . . Implications for risk perception and communication. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 17, 439-440.
402 Wagner, R. G., Flynn, J., Gregory, R., Mertz, C. K., & Slovic, P. (1998). Acceptable practices in Ontario’s forests: Differences between the public and forestry professionals. New Forests, 16, 139-154.
354 Johnson, B. B., & Slovic, P. (1995). Presenting uncertainty in health risk assessment: Initial studies of its effects on risk perception and trust. Risk Analysis, 15(4), 485-494.
345 Slovic, P., Malmfors, T., Krewski, D., Mertz, C. K., Neil, N., & Bartlett, S. (1995). Intuitive toxicology II: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks in Canada. Risk Analysis, 15(6), 661-675.
320 Flynn, J., Slovic, P., & Mertz, C. K. (1993). The Nevada Initiative: A risk communication fiasco. Risk Analysis, 13(5), 497-502.
319 Slovic, P. (1993). Perceived risk, trust, and democracy. Risk Analysis, 13, 675-682.
301 Kraus, N., Malmfors, T., & Slovic, P. (1992). Intuitive toxicology: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks. Risk Analysis, 12, 215-232.
300 Gregory, R., Kunreuther, H., Easterling, D., & Richards, K. (1991). Incentives policies to site hazardous waste facilities. Risk Analysis, 11, 667-675.
272 Gregory, R. (1989). Improving risk communication: Questions of content and intent. In W. Leiss (Ed.), Prospects and problems in risk communication (pp. 71-80). Ontario, Canada: University of Waterloo.
71 Dawes, R. M., McTavish, J., & Shaklee, H. (1977). Behavior, communication, and assumptions about other people's behavior in a commons dilemma situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 1-11.