The Feeling of Risk : New Perspectives on Risk Perception (Paperback)

Introduction and Overview Part I: Risk as Feelings 1. The Affect Heuristic and the Attractiveness of Simple Gambles 2. Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality 3. Attentional Mechanisms in the Generation of Sympathy 4. Sympathy and Callousness: The Impact of Deliberative Thought on Donations to Identifiable and Statistical Victims 5. The More Who Die, The Less We Care 6. Numbers and Nerves: Toward an Affective Apprehension of Environmental Risk 7. Cigarette Smokers: Rational Actors or Rational Fools? 8. Affect, Risk Perception and Future Optimism after the Tsunami Disaster Part II: Culture, Cognition, and Risk 9. Gender, Race, and Perceived Risk: The 'White Male' Effect 10. Discrimination, Vulnerability, and Justice in the Face of Risk 11. Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception 12. Book Review: Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk 13. Risk Lived, Stigma Experienced. Part III: Psychometric Studies 14. Public Perception of the Risk of Blood Transfusion 15. Expert and Public Perception of Risk from Biotechnology 16. Risk Perception of Prescription Drugs: Results of a National Survey 17. Predicting and Modeling Public Response to a Terrorist Strike 18. Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology Part IV: Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication 19. The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing Fifteen Years of Research and Theory 20. Numeracy Skill and the Communication, Comprehension, and Use of Risk-Benefit Information 21. Public Understanding of the Illnesses Caused by Cigarette Smoking 22. The Impact and Acceptability of Canadian-Style Cigarette Warning Labels among U.S. Smokers and Nonsmokers