Consumer food choice is framed in terms of the formation of quality expectations before and
quality experience after the purchase. For the formation of quality expectations, lack of …

This paper reviews recent work in the field of risk perception research, taking its examples
primarily from work relating to air pollution issues. The paper opens with a brief discussion of …

One of the main challenges of emergency management lies in communicating risks to the
public. On some occasions, risk communicators might seek to increase awareness over …

Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk
researcher must read this book-it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk …

Risk is a popular topic in many sciences-in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social,
economic and legal disciplines. Yet, no single discipline can grasp the full meaning of risk …

The gamble has been to decision research what the fruit fly has been to biology–a vehicle
for examining fundamental processes with presumably important implications outside the …

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic
and socio-political changes globally-the chaos in the world banking system and the financial …

This is a survey of research on how media influence risk perception. Media are diverse in
content, and often not as biased in their (news) reporting as is commonly thought. Although …

A mail survey on ecological risk perception was administered in the summer of 2002 to a
randomized sample of the lay public and to selected risk professionals at the US …

There is substantial empirical evidence that both trust and risk perceptions influence public
acceptance of new technologies. We reanalyzed 3 studies (on food technology) to compare …