Can We Apply the Psychology of Risk Perception to Increase Earthquake Preparation?
Can we encourage people to prepare for a natural disaster by altering the way that scientific information about risk is presented? In assessing the risk posed by a particular hazard, people tend to be guided more strongly by their emotional reactions than by logical or statistical analysis; human be...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Collabra: Psychology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.collabra.org/articles/238 |