Risk Analysis and Human Behavior

Risk Analysis and Human Behavior

by Baruch Fischhoff
Released June 2013
Publisher(s): Routledge
ISBN: 9781136495793

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Book description

The articles collected here are foundational contributions to incorporating behavioural research in risk analysis. On the one hand, they address the questions of how to communicate with the public about risks, learning about the public’s concern and addressing them with responsive risk management and authoritative communications. On the other hand, they address the questions of how to ensure that risk analyses make realistic assumptions about how people will behave, when they are part of risky systems, and what role expert judgment plays in analytical results. Ensuring behaviourally realistic risk analysis has been a central mission of the author’s career and here he achieves the clarity long sought for. These articles touch on each fundamental area, demonstrating the possibilities for collaborative applied research and the basic research that it impels.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
  3. Earthscan Risk in Society Series
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Content
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. On the Cover
  10. Introduction
  11. PART I Overview
    1. 1 Risk Perception and Communication
    2. 2 Cognitive Processes In Stated Preference Methods
  12. PART II Behaviorally realistic risk analysis
    1. 3 Cost-Benefit Analysis And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
    2. 4 Individuals’ Decisions Affecting Radiation Exposure After A Nuclear Explosion
    3. 5 Predicting Emergency Evacuation And Sheltering Behavior: A structured analytical approach
    4. 6 An Integrative Approach For Label Evaluation And Design
    5. 7 Analyzing Disaster Risks And Plans: An avian flu example
  13. PART III Social context of behavioral research
    1. 8 Lay Foibles And Expert Fables In Judgments About Risk
    2. 9 Risk Perception And Communication Unplugged: Twenty years of process
    3. 10 Non-Persuasive Communication About Matters Of Greatest Urgency: Climate change
  14. PART IV Risk communication
    1. 11 What Forecasts (Seem To) Mean
    2. 12 Parents’ Vaccination Comprehension And Decisions
    3. 13 Development And Evaluation Of An HIV/AIDS Knowledge Measure For Adolescents Focusing On Misconceptions
    4. 14 Communicating About Xenotransplantation: Models and Scenarios
  15. PART V Aiding individual risk decisions
    1. 15 What Do Patients Want? Help in making effective choices—a patient’s perspective
    2. 16 Giving Advice: Decision theory perspectives on sexual assault
    3. 17 Sticky Decisions: Peanut butter in a time of Salmonella
  16. PART VI Aiding public risk decisions
    1. 18 A Multi–Channel Stakeholder Consultation Process For Transmission Deregulation
    2. 19 The Science And Practice Of Risk Ranking
    3. 20 Counting Casualties: A framework for respectful, useful records
  17. Postscript: Integrating risk analysis and behavioral research
  18. Index

Product information

  • Title: Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
  • Author(s): Baruch Fischhoff
  • Release date: June 2013
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781136495793