Risk Analysis and Human Behavior (Hardcover)

Introduction  Section 1: Overview  1. Risk Perception and Communication  2. Cognitive Processes in Stated Preference Methods  Section 2: Behaviorally Realistic Risk Analysis  3. Cost-benefit Analysis and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  4. Individuals’ Decisions Affecting Radiation Exposure After a Nuclear Event  5. Predicting Emergency Evacuation and Sheltering Behavior: A Structured Analytical Approach  6. An Integrative Approach to Label Design and Evaluation  7. Analyzing Disaster Risks and Plans: An Avian Flu Example  Section 3: Social Context of Behavioral Research  8. Lay Foibles and Expert Fables in Judgments about Risk  9. Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Process  10. Non-persuasive Communication about Matters of Greatest Urgency: Climate Change  Section 4: Risk Communication  11. What Forecasts (seem to) Mean  12. Patients’ Vaccination Comprehension and Decisions  13. Development and Evaluation of an HIV/AIDS Knowledge Measure for Adolescents Focusing on Misconceptions  14. Communicating about Xenotransplanation: Models and Scenarios  Section 5: Aiding Individual Risk Decisions  15. What do Patients Want? Help in Making Effective Choices  16. Giving Advice: Decision Theory Perspectives on Sexual Assault  17. Sticky Decisions: Peanut Butter in a time of Salmonella  Section 6: Aiding Public Risk Decisions  18. A Multi-channel Stakeholder Consultation Process for Energy Deregulation  19. The Science and Practice of Risk Ranking  20. Counting Casualties: A Framework for Respectful, Useful Records.  Postscript: Integrating Risk Analysis and Behavioral Research