Affective influences may play a key role in adolescent risk taking, but have rarely been studied. Using an audiovisual method of affect induction, two experimental studies examined the effect of positive affect on risk perceptions in adolescence and young adulthood. Outcomes were risk perceptions regarding drinking alcohol, smoking a cigarette, riding in a car with a drunk driver, getting into ...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoke exposure harms children and adults. Yet, 40% of children worldwide are exposed to tobacco smoke in their homes. Such widespread parental failure to protect children is puzzling, and may be related to risk perceptions. No consensus exists about how to measure parental risk perceptions of tobacco smoke exposure. METHODS The objective of this research was to study Parent...

The communication of information (‘facts’) by experts to the general public becomes challenging if there is an absence trust in experts, and institutions they represent. There has been a perceived sense decline expertise science, issue concern highlighted political leaders such as MP Michael Gove Former US President Donald Trump. This paper presents synthesis differing fields study reflect upon...

Beef food safety events have contributed to considerable market volatility, produced varied consumer reactions, created policy debates, sparked heated trade disputes, and generally contributed to beef industry frustrations. Utilizing data from a total of 4,005 consumers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan in a Double-Hurdle modeling framework, we examine whether consumers altered the...

Computing with words (CWW) techniques have been shown to be useful in the management of imperfect information. From the programmer’s standpoint, new tools are necessary to ease the use of these techniques within current programming platforms. This paper presents a step in this direction by describing a general framework that supports the implementation of applications dealing with fuzzy objects...

This paper reviews the social scientific literature on public perception of risk. We begin with a discussion of the concept of risk and its place in the social sciences. Then we outline psychological research on cognition and emotion and how laypersons appraise uncertainty. This highlights the different ways in which experts and the public often approach risk. After this discussion we turn to t...