Risk Preferences, Risk Perceptions, and Risky Food

The media and food-risk perceptions.

Priming Risky Choice: Do Risk Preferences Need Inferences?

The notion that subtle influences, often falling outside awareness, can bias behaviour has a strong grip on both theoretical perspectives and the public imagination. We report three experiments that examined this idea in the context of risky choice. Experiment 1 (N= 100) appeared to find evidence for an interaction whereby participants primed but not reminded of the prime showed an assimilation...

Measuring patients' preferences for treatment and perceptions of risk.

A greater understanding of patients’ preferences for mode of treatment is central to current models of shared patient-doctor decision making. It is also of potential importance in enhancing patient adherence to treatment and, in turn, patients’ health outcomes. Health services, with their emphases on patient involvement and satisfaction, audit and clinical governance, increasingly aim to be res...

Risk and culture: variations in dioxin risk perceptions, behavioral preferences among social groups in South Korea

OBJECTIVES This study examined variations in the perceptions of dioxin risk among social groups defined by geographical living location, environmental education, and occupation. Dioxin risk perceptions were analyzed according to values, risk awareness, knowledge, and behavioral preferences. METHODS A quasi-experimental survey was designed and conducted on individuals from seven experimental g...

Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Using data from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when risk pooling arrangements are not formally enforced. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and network connections both theoretically and empirically. We find that pairs of participants who share a bond of friendship or kinship are more likely to (1) join the sa...