Sentences with phrase «public risk perceptions»

What dynamics shape public risk perceptions?

It is one of the classic findings from the study of public risk perceptions.

The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs.

Not exact matches

Among the risk factors listed in Freshii's prospectus, the company notes «investors» general perception of us and the public's reactions to our press releases [and] open letters,» and cites the froyo missive.

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

He's a smart kid who knows better than to offend anyone — an easy thing to do in the age of the internet — and put his sponsorships or public perception at risk.

Oddsmakers are more likely to shade their lines in college football games than they are in NFL games, but that's only the case in heavily bet games where they're trying to mitigate risk and / or exploit public perception.

The mass media have a powerful impact on public perceptions of health issues.1 Headline health scares have a measurable effect on behaviour, and routine coverage influences people's assessments of personal risk, utilisation of health services, and views on public policy.2 - 7 The media not only provide information but also help to create or reinforce ideas about what is common sense or normal.

It risks strengthening the cynical public perception that the elites stitch up politics and refuse to address the real issues that ordinary people care about.»

Misinformation is especially toxic to risk perception because it can reinforce generalized confirmation biases and erode public trust in scientific data.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

«We know that brand imagery and design elements influence perceptions of consumer risk and status,» said Dr. Raglan Maddox, a postdoctoral fellow at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, specializing in Aboriginal tobacco use, public health and evaluation.

«There is a real risk that as clinics proliferate, if we don't address it in a more proactive way, as we see negative outcomes for patients grow and people get mixed bags of information about stem cells, then this could really negatively impact the public perception of this research.»

«The Perception of Human Appearance in Video Games: Toward an Understanding of the Effects of Player Perceptions of Game Features,» published in the May 2013 issue of Mass Communication and Society, comes as lawmakers and the public are freshly debating the possible risks that violent games may pose to impressionable players.

The question concerning whether and to what extent public perception deviates from scientific estimations of health risks is of particular interest for the work of the BfR, as the Institute can then counteract false estimations or misunderstandings with communicative measures.

«People have a hard time seeing research related to health risks as legitimate if done with a corporate partner,» said John Besley, lead author and an associate professor who studies the public's perception of science.

In 2001 Alasdair Forsyth, now at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK, illustrated how the public's perception of drugs» risks is distorted by selective reporting.

Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world.

Science - fisheries, natural resource management, fish behavior, fish biology, conservation; education - science, grades 6 - 12, biology, citizen science, public participation in research, model and systems thinking, evidence - based reasoning; social science - communication, anthropology, human dimensions, risk perception / communication.

The Synthetic Biology Project is being launched to identify gaps in our knowledge of the potential risks of the field, explore public perceptions towards it, and examine governance options that will both ensure public safety and facilitate innovation.

In collaboration with researchers, governments, industries, non-governmental organizations, policymakers and others, the Project will work to identify gaps in our knowledge of the potential risks of synthetic biology, explore public perceptions towards the field, and examine governance options that will both ensure public safety and facilitate innovation.

Risks One big risk would be public perception and resistance to the effort.

Increasing intake of omega - 3 fatty acids can lower the risk of coronary heart disease; the AHA is concerned that there's a public perception that omega - 6 fatty acids aren't as healthy as omega - 3s and should be limited in the diet.

To manage the risk, reduce associated costs and improve public perception surrounding online dating safety — it is beneficial to hire a third party vendor with the resources in place to ensure compliance.

Such public threats trigger a media frenzy, alarm employees and parent advocates, and fuel the public perception that schools are in financial risk.

Essentially Sandman argues that risk perception, that is, the public's understanding of the potential danger of something in the environment (the hazard) is not necessarily based on an objective understanding of risk, but on an emotional equation which is created by the relationship between hazard and outrage (an emotional reaction to the hazard).

The thing is that the public's perception of risk is distorted, and they tend to over-react to catastrophic but improbable risks that are imminent while discounting very real risks in the «distant» (read > 5 years) future.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

d. Changing perceptions of the risks and benefits of nuclear power leads to increasing public support for nuclear > allows the NRC licensing process to be completely revamped and the culture of the organisation to be changed from «safety first» to an appropriate balance of all costs and risks, including the consequences of retarding nuclear development and rollout by making it too expensive to compete as well as it could if the costs were lower (e.g. higher fatalities per TWh if nuclear is not allowed to be cheaper than fossil fuels);

Fox argues that cultural cognition dynamics are likely to influence not only public perceptions of risk but also market - related assessments and decisionmaking within groups one might expect to be more focused on money and data than on meaning.

(Note that the Kahan Study did not look at the public's perception of the truth or reliability of climate science but, rather, the public's assessment of the risks that climate change poses.)

How do perceptions of the risks and benefits of nuclear energy differ, if at all, among the general public, experts, policymakers, industry, and environmental activists?

«The most pressing problem right now is public perception of the risk of nuclear power,» University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Reto Gieré, who involved in the research, said in a statement.

Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk: Surveys of the United States, Canada and Malta Abstract We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, andPublic Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk: Surveys of the United States, Canada and Malta Abstract We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, andpublic believe that climate change poses human health risks, and if...

This report includes measures of public global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, personal importance, information needs, trust in different information sources, attitudes towards individual action, and how these have changed since January, 2010 and November, 2008.

Like Peter and Jody, I have expertise in risk perception and risk communication but not in epidemiology or public health.

The survey questionnaire included extensive, in - depth measures of public climate change beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, policy preferences, behaviors, barriers to action, motivations, and values.

A quantitative study of public perceptions and risk framing in Britain.

We conducted an experimental public opinion study of the effect of balanced information on nanotechnology risk - benefit perceptions.

Now, with 24/7 news coverage and social media going wild at every turn, public perception has been skewed, litigiousness has increased, and people see inflated risk everywhere.

The interview is well worth a watch not only because Oliver challenges some of Snowden's disclosures and the risks he took, but because he tests Snowden's perceptions about difference any of it has made in the register of public awareness.

He starts from the proposition that a case of this sort «creates a tension between two public interests»: that a person should be free to instruct a solicitor of their choice; while a former client must know that there could be «no risk or perception of risk» that confidential information might be disclosed — even accidentally (para 20).

They were doing this due to the public's perceptions of migrant workers and the real risk that this perception would lead to the UK's withdrawal form the EU.

West Virginia is engaging in a Positive Community Norms process to change the public's perception that home visiting is only for at - risk families.