Factors in Risk Perception
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Lennart Sjöberg
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Article
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2000
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Springer
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English
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Risk perception is a phenomenon in search of an explanation. Several approaches are discussed in this paper. Technical risk estimates are sometimes a potent factor in accounting for perceived risk, but in many important applications it is not. Heuristics and biases, mainly availability, account for