If you don't understand the
psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to
avoid it.
Although we used aggregate scores based on father - reports and mother - reports of child behavior problems and we observed child prosocial behavior in the home, future studies should include observations of child externalizing problems and interviews of child internalizing problems (e.g., the Berkeley Puppet Interview; Ringoot et al. 2013) to
avoid potential response
biases based on parents» own
psychological difficulties.