Risk perception refers to people's subjective judgments about the likelihood of negative
occurrences such as injury, illness, disease, and death. Risk perception is important in …

According to the US National Research Council, risk communication ought to be viewed as
a dialogue among people conducted to help facilitate a more accurate understanding of …

Discusses problems and challenges involved in risk communication, noting that differing
perspectives relating to risk can be placed along a spectrum running from informing the …

Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information
about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific …

This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication,
brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk …

Risk concerns suffuse every level of society, from policymakers to field-level enforcement,
from risk generators to risk bearers, from affluent societies with not in my backyard (NIMBY) …

Much risk communication research has demonstrated how mass media can influence
individual risk perceptions, but lacks a comprehensive conceptual understanding of another …

Western media outlets are increasingly drawing upon public footage and citizen accounts of
risk incidents. Contemporaneously, technological advances have enabled members of the …

In this paper, we present a research agenda for longitudinal risk communication during a
global pandemic. Starting from an understanding that traditional approaches to risk …