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Strategies for risk communication [electronic resource] : evolution, evidence, experience / edited by W. Troy Tucker ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 1128Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008.Description: xii, 139 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780470480120
  • 0470480122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.1
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Contents:
Introduction. Strategies for risk communication : evolution, evidence, experience / W. Troy Tucker and Scott Ferson -- Numeracy and the perception and communication of risk / Ellen Peters -- Evolution, risk, and neural representation / Karli K. Watson -- Linguistic uncertainty in qualitative risk analysis and how to minimize it / Janet M. Carey and Mark A. Burgman -- Transparency in risk communication : graphical and analog tools / Elke Kurz-Milcke, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Laura Martignon -- Visualizing seismic risk and uncertainty : a review of related research / Ann Bostrom, Luc Anselin, and Jeremy Farris -- The neuronal substrate of risky choice : an insight into the contributions of neuroimaging to the understanding of theories on decision making under risk / Verena Vorhold -- Multiple systems in decision making / Alan G. Sanfey and Luke J. Chang -- A frequency/consequence-based technique for visualizing and communicating uncertainty and perception of risk / David Slavin, W. Troy Tucker, and Scott Ferson -- Risk communication and risky choice in context : ambiguity and ambivalence hypothesis / Xiao-Tian Wang -- Models and methods in delay discounting / Aaron D. Tesch and Alan G. Sanfey -- Science, precaution, and the politics of technological risk : converging implications in evolutionary and social scientific perspectives / Andy Stirling -- Evolved altruism, strong reciprocity, and perception of risk / W. Troy Tucker and Scott Ferson -- Perceiving others' perceptions of risk : still a task for Sisyphus / Adam M. Finkel.
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IEEE ebook

"This volume presents the proceedings of the symposium entitled Strategies for Risk Communication: Evolution, Evidence, Experience. The symposium was held in Montauk, Long Island, New York on May 15-17, 2006"--P. ix.

IT Carlow ebook

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Strategies for risk communication : evolution, evidence, experience / W. Troy Tucker and Scott Ferson -- Numeracy and the perception and communication of risk / Ellen Peters -- Evolution, risk, and neural representation / Karli K. Watson -- Linguistic uncertainty in qualitative risk analysis and how to minimize it / Janet M. Carey and Mark A. Burgman -- Transparency in risk communication : graphical and analog tools / Elke Kurz-Milcke, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Laura Martignon -- Visualizing seismic risk and uncertainty : a review of related research / Ann Bostrom, Luc Anselin, and Jeremy Farris -- The neuronal substrate of risky choice : an insight into the contributions of neuroimaging to the understanding of theories on decision making under risk / Verena Vorhold -- Multiple systems in decision making / Alan G. Sanfey and Luke J. Chang -- A frequency/consequence-based technique for visualizing and communicating uncertainty and perception of risk / David Slavin, W. Troy Tucker, and Scott Ferson -- Risk communication and risky choice in context : ambiguity and ambivalence hypothesis / Xiao-Tian Wang -- Models and methods in delay discounting / Aaron D. Tesch and Alan G. Sanfey -- Science, precaution, and the politics of technological risk : converging implications in evolutionary and social scientific perspectives / Andy Stirling -- Evolved altruism, strong reciprocity, and perception of risk / W. Troy Tucker and Scott Ferson -- Perceiving others' perceptions of risk : still a task for Sisyphus / Adam M. Finkel.

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