Developing a Broadly Applicable Measure of Risk Perception

• Published in: Risk analysis Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 777 - 791
• Main Authors: Wilson, Robyn S., Zwickle, Adam, Walpole, Hugh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Affect; consequences; emotion; Emotions; Extreme weather; Hazard assessment; Hazard identification; Health behavior; Judgments; Literature reviews; measurement; Mitigation; Motivation; Perception; Perceptions; Polls & surveys; Pollution; Probability judgments; Research subjects; Risk assessment; Risk perception; Safety behaviour; Statistical analysis; Weather; consequences; emotion; Affect; measurement; risk perception

Decades of research identify risk perception as a largely intuitive and affective construct, in contrast to the more deliberative assessments of probability and consequences that form the foundation of risk assessment. However, a review of the literature reveals that many of the risk perception meas...