Sentences with phrase «human fear of risk»

This belief in the Holy Grail or magic system arises from the primary human fear of risk and uncertaintly and the corresponding belief that it is possible to understand and control them, whereas the truth is that we can only manage them.

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The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...

The huge decrease in human violence, the great risk of cyber attacks, and the paralyzing fear of pandemic disease.

The first movement of Rwandan refugees arrived in South Africa in December 1996 after escaping forced massive repatriation, perpetrated by Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon without regard of said refugees» fears of a personal, real and foreseeable risk of persecution or torture and of probable human rights abuses back home.

There is also a risk that the baby animal will «imprint» on humans, meaning that it will no longer have a fear of humans.

Pioneering research on this subject by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and others, vast research on human cognition by Daniel Kahneman and colleagues, and research on the brain's fear response by neuroscientists Joseph LeDoux, Elizabeth Phelps, and others, all make abundantly clear that the perception of risk is not simply a matter of the facts, but more a matter of how those facts feel.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

In the two - track approach to the European human rights project, where the Luxembourg Court is also proactive in providing guidance, the Strasbourg Court in 2013 in M.E v Sweden is being asked by the interveners [42] to apply the guidance of the UK Supreme Court, [43] and the UK Upper Tribunal, [44] in engaging with the risk group (those who are open), and how they are identified («not being straight enough, including straight individuals, due to non-compliance with a heteronormative stereotype in the eyes of the potential persecutor»), independent of whether an individual is «voluntarily discrete», where such discretion is due to a well - founded fear of persecution.

In considering whether witnesses giving evidence to an inquiry should be given anonymity on grounds of fears for their safety, the criterion to determine whether the risk to life is real and immediate for the purposes of Art 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) is one which will not be readily satisfied; the threshold is high.