For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of ...

WORTH EXAMINING THE DATA. DAVID ROPEIK OPENS HIS NEW BOOK, CURING CANCER PHOBIA HOW RISK, FEAR AND WORRY MISLEAD US BY SAYING HE’S SORRY. I. I HOPE THAT READERS OF THE BOOK WILL SEE HOW APOLOGETIC I ...

(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.

Imagine your leadership team sailing smoothly through calm waters—until it hits an unexpected iceberg. The forecasts were solid. The numbers were sound. Yet beneath the surface, something far more ...

International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, Special Issue: Water and Indigenous Peoples (September 2012), pp. 1-23 (25 pages) Access to safe drinking water is a pressing social policy ...

From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

When was the last time you feared for your life? Fear, perceptions of safety, and our ability to recognize danger have always been essential for human survival and continue to shape how we navigate ...