Sentences with phrase «risk perception»

The role of direct experience in risk perception and behavioral response.

Nothing, however, prevents the card issuer from cancelling an account altogether, which many will do based on risk perception.

Oil prices increase and decrease as risk perception rises and falls.

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

These findings are in line with prior research suggesting that lower health literacy is associated with lower smoking risk perceptions and less knowledge about the health risks of smoking [10, 11].

However, the two hypotheses do make distinct predictions about how risk perception, cultural groups and scientific literacy should be correlated; therefore, they can be tested.

Risk perception research has found that when we grow familiar with a risk... when we have experienced the danger but not suffered... we start to take it less seriously.

Primary results of the work to date include development of a system dynamics model for risk perception based upon the theory of planned behavior.

Scientific studies suggest that media coverage may directly or indirectly «prime» certain risk perceptions among audiences and thereby influence their individual behavior in response to the risks.

In fact, the gold price has recovered somewhat as risk perceptions rise.

Equity correlation risk The perception that high yield issuers may have trouble generating sufficient cash flow to make interest payments could make them behave like equities.

He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society.

My point is the selfish one, that for a social scientist looking at societal risk perception and adaptive capacity in flood risk areas, this research represents a dilemma.

A mere moderation of risk perception may be insufficient to justify active rejection of the science and of relevant policy options.

I sent the piece to a variety of specialists in risk perception and response.

An insurance company decides the premium based on risk perception.

As a way of illustrating the idea of outrage as risk perception, think about a three year old who is scared because she believes there are monsters under her bed.

Topic: Integrating human risk perception of global climate change into dynamic earth system models

These influential components of risk perception psychology, of our Inconvenient Mind, identify opportunities to frame climate change in ways that are emotionally resonant to the audiences that climate communicators are trying to influence.

Fixed income — Fixed income prices respond to changing economic environments, including interest rate changes and credit risk perceptions of individual issuers, which can negatively affect the price and income level.

«Day after Tomorrow: Study of Climate Change Risk Perception.»

Yang's study, recently published in the journal Risk Analysis, manipulated risk perception to determine what factors might influence altruistic behavior, which she measured as support for family and friends if they were to go to West Africa as Ebola responders.

The «cultural cognition of risk» refers to the tendency of individuals to form risk perceptions that are congenial to their values.

But for Donald Braman, associate professor of law at George Washington University, who works on risk perception studies, the focus on white males and climate change could be somewhat misleading.

Individual's past tornado experiences are multi-faceted and nuanced with each of the above six dimensions exerting a different influence on tornado risk perceptions.

«Appropriate risk communication on contaminants should take this subjective risk perception into account.»

Researchers looked at data from the Tobacco Products and Risk Perception surveys from 2012 through 2015 to examine changes in how adults in the United States perceived the relative harm and addictiveness of e-cigarettes.

Global risk perception can also play a big role; if investors begin to perceive that markets are becoming more volatile and risky, they may sell out of corporate debts in favor of Treasuries, thus decreasing the price of some corporate securities.

Second, because humans have flawed risk perceptions, we are more comfortable with the familiar than the new, and thus exaggerate the risks of new things.

No entrepreneur should consider any of these challenges as hard barriers, but they do need to be aware of higher risk perception, and include their mitigation strategy in their business plan for all to see.

The questionnaire also measured risk perception.

The psychology of risk perception suggests that in many cases their reactions won't match the realities of the danger, and as a result, some of their choices and behaviors might not maximize their safety.

Patient - specific factors including female sex, old age, and low risk perception correlated with refusal of HIV testing.

Ricci, T., Barberi, F., Davis, M. S., Isaia, R. & Nave, R. Volcanic risk perception in the Campi Flegrei area.

Incorrect risk perceptions can lead to bad assets being created unwittingly, just as we saw in the US housing boom.

It is difficult for people from outside the minority to campaign for the emancipation of the doubly marginalised group without risking the perception of increasing the marginalisaion of the larger group.

Indeed we believe this choice should be available to all schools who think it is right for them, not just those defined as outstanding, which risks perception of elitism,» the NAHT stated.

Brian Wynne analyses how risk, not simply risk perception, is constituted by its social context.

The most important reason is that secrecy is a key driver of risk perception heuristics: When information is being withheld from us, we immediately assume the worst.

Studies on how media prime risk perceptions also suggest that individuals will readily remember environmental risk issues that have been reported more recently and frequently, thus making such news more salient and influential in decision making.

The effect induced by graphic warning labels appears to have utility in communicating more and more credible information, useful to promoting risk perceptions and quit intentions among smokers in the US and around the world.»

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

And if they disclose their % portfolio stake, in many cases I think that tells you a lot about their conviction & risk perception regarding the stock.

As Finucane et al. 2000 puts it bluntly, «Attempts to re-align risk perceptions according to the white male view of the world are likely to be unsuccessful.»

Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts») I cite a few of the experts whose work helps us understand risk perception, and summarize their findings, in the hope that what they've taught us can be more widely known, and take its rightful place in careful risk management policy making.