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English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Jiankun Gong, Amira Firdaus, Yating Yu, Iffat Ali Aksar
There is a gap in our knowledge that has not been filled much yet: the interplay between uncertainty and transparency, as well as the social amplification of risk and potential manipulation, interc...
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Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Tanja Perko, David Hevey
Communication campaigns addressing radon-related health risks have struggled to promote health-protective behaviour effectively. Typically framed as a ‘naturally occurring gas’, this study explores...
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Community preparedness for natural hazards in two Chilean coastal cities Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Javiera V. Castañeda, Paula B. Repetto, Nicolás C. Bronfman, Pamela C. Cisternas
Chile is a country with high exposure to earthquakes and tsunamis. However, cities present different levels of community preparedness. Understanding the decision-making process for adopting prepare...
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Exploring climate change discourses on the internet: a topic modeling study across ten years Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Gisela Böhm, Hans-Rüdiger Pfister
This study examines online discourses about climate change using automated text analysis. Samples of web contributions from various sources, such as blogs, online newspaper articles, readers’ comme...
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Changing risk-taking: the effects of tasks and incentives on the variability of risk-taking Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Emma Soane, Lisa Aufegger
The capability to vary risk-taking is an important aspect of performance in organizations where behavioral adjustments are required to suit changing objectives. Incentive schemes are one way to inf...
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‘We live with the floods’ – Intersectional Risk Theory in the analysis of household’s flood risk in Monterrey, Mexico Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez
This contribution presents Intersectional Risk Theory as a suitable methodological approach for a group-centred qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with inhabitants of three neighbou...
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Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Gabriella Sandstig, Mats Eriksson
Responsibility awareness is a vital component of several countries’ crises preparedness policies. In recent years there has also been a formal shift in responsibility, from state level to regional ...
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Risk identification in Japanese consumer product injury data throughout an ontology-based knowledge base Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Xiaodong Feng, Kun Zhang, Fang Jiang, Yoshiki Mikami
Risk identification and further risk assessment of consumer product injury data are critical tools for accident prevention. However, in Japan, existing risk assessment methods face challenges due t...
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Robotics uncharted: When hazardous-duty robots met the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011–2015) Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Yeon-Jung Ji
The Fukushima nuclear disaster of 11 March 2011, created a hazardous environment for both residents and rescue workers. The proficient use of robotic technology to assist with disaster mitigation a...
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Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Li Guan, José M. Merigó, Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Jamie K. Wardman
The Journal of Risk Research is a leading international journal in risk research connected to multidisciplinary areas. It was launched in 1998 and founded by Ragnar E. Löfstedt. Motivated by its 25...
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Uncertainty in official statistics1 Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Ed Humpherson
One of the challenges faced by organisations that provide official statistics is how to convey the uncertainty related to the statistics. This artlce sets out the importance of conveying uncertaint...
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Understanding the role of hope in climate change risk perception: a cross-sectional study Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Greta Castellini, Harriet Pinel, Marta Acampora, Luigi Lucini, Serena Barello, Cinzia Castiglioni
Italy is experiencing the negative effects of climate change, which is causing considerable damage. Evidence of the damage is increasing citizens’ concern about climate change. According to many re...
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Investigating the psychological impact of communicating epistemic uncertainty in personalized and generic risk estimates: an experimental study Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Ruben D. Vromans, Lisanne M. A. van Goor, Steffen C. Pauws
Nowadays, there is an increased availability of online health risk calculators aimed at providing people with personalized risk estimates of experiencing a medical disease. Despite being deemed as ...
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Beyond the singular and linear risk approach Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Rob Smal, Jan van Tol
Risk science and risk policy are different perspectives, which ideally help and reinforce one another. This commentary addresses the policy perspective with three propositions and is intended as a ...
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Securing public spaces: public willingness to sacrifice convenience and privacy for security at three U.S. public venues Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Katie Byrd, Kevin Kapadia, Adam Rose, Richard John
The use of security countermeasures at public venues has escalated dramatically over the past 20 years. We present a study of public venue patrons (N = 1276) examining how public perceptions of eff...
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Seismic hazard and risk analysis in The Netherlands for deep subsurface activities in practice Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 K. van Thienen-Visser
A seismic hazard and risk analysis is one of the requirements under the Dutch Mining Law when applying for a license for an activity in the deep subsurface. Current methods vary from qualitative to...
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Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Peter Ayton
The target article ‘Risk analysis, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition?’ advocates dropping use of the precautionary principle, proposing an alternative ...
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The ever-continuing underestimation of the general public Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Ira Helsloot
Within politics and science there still seems to be a tendency to consider risk communication successful if and only if the general public believes the risk to be negligible. Using that mental fram...
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Energy transition and risk analysis: a commentary Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Michael Faure
This is a commentary on the paper by Bouder/Lofstedt on the role of risk analysis in the light of uncertainty. The commentary points at various challenges related to risk assessment, more particula...
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Perspectives on future directions of risk-informed education: lessons from Japan and Türkiye Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Ayse Yildiz, Rajib Shaw
While pre-disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and mitigation measures are important, disaster events often provide a window to development. They can allow learning from the response efforts, imp...
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Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Shin-etsu Sugawara
Much of the risk science literature, in an increasingly complex world, suggests a transition from conventional risk management to risk governance. Risk governance, which highlights the multiplicity...
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Promoting voluntary risk detection behaviour: an intervention study based on trending social norms combined with emotional appeals Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Geertje Schuitema, Teresa Hooks
Well-owners are exposed to substantial health risks but rarely test their water and infrequently maintain their wells. We designed and tested an intervention aimed to promote voluntairy risk detect...
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How personal experiences shaped risk judgments during COVID-19 Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people had two important but imperfect teachers of risk. First, they learned about incidence, mortality rates, and reproduction numbers from reports and graphs. Second...
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Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Stephanie Hurst
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Commentary: risk, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition? Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Joakim Zander
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Frederic Bouder, Ragnar Lofstedt
The objective of this article is to present specific concepts that can assist the Dutch government when facing scientific uncertainties in relation to the risks of technologies used for the energy ...
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The role of social capital in managing risks: a bibliometric analysis and literature review Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Huijie Li, Hongyan Yi, Ortwin Renn, Jie Li
Disasters and crises affect more people around the world than reported in official documents by national or international agencies. Meanwhile, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, several wars wo...
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How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Ines Spielvogel, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
A high percentage of current news media covers topics relevant to the public such as wars, crime, and terrorist attacks, making threat perceptions and fears in public spaces (TPF-PS) more salient. ...
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A systematic literature review on risk perception of Artificial Narrow Intelligence Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Jonas Benjamin Krieger, Frederic Bouder, Matthias Wibral, Rui Jorge Almeida
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured global attention recently, prompting the need to understand how associated risks are perceived. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providi...
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Risk communication, uncertainty and the Dutch energy transition Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Ragnar Lofstedt, Frederic Bouder
In this article we examine what the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy may wish to do going forward when it comes to communicating the risks and uncertainties associated with the...
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Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter? Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Magda Osman
The target article ‘Risk analysis, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition?’ sets out some broad factors (e.g. uncertainty, risk tolerance) that should infor...
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The many faces of uncertainty: a comment to Lofstedt and Bouder Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Ortwin Renn
Risk and uncertainty communication of often directed towards addressing the relevance and meaning of probability distributions over negative outcomes and statistical confidence intervals. As much a...
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The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Kathryn Robinson-Tay, Wei Peng
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) hold promise for revolutionizing transportation and reducing accidents. However, public opinions of AVs remain ambivalent and negative, potentially related to the risk of ...
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Uncertainty, risk and the Dutch energy transition. A commentary Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Tom Jansen, Liesbeth Claassen, Christine Boomsma
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Plea for an inclusive approach to risk Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Barend van Engelenburg, Theodor Kockelkoren
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reflection on ‘risk analysis and uncertainty: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition’ by Frederic Bouder and Ragnar Lofstedt Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Jan Dirk Jansen, Rien Herber
A general trend in the use of the Dutch deep subsurface is a shift from hydrocarbon production to geothermal energy production and subsurface storage of CO2 and H2. A broad mistrust by the general ...
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Energy transitioning: communicating risk to decision-makers Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Magda Osman
The target article ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the Dutch energy transition’ outlines a comprehensive list of major and minor recommendations that the Dutch Ministry for Economic Affairs an...
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The debut, travels and future of intersectionality in HIV prevention and treatment interventions Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Shari L. Dworkin
The editors of this special issue and authors within it have highlighted that the frameworks, methods, and practice of intersectional thinking have travelled from their original conception to other...
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COVID-19 and perceived risk: examining mortality salience and political decision-making during a pandemic Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Lindsey Harvell-Bowman, Patrick F. Merle, Peter Montwill, Gabriel Gilmore, Aya Nassif, Alice Klein
Four experiments were administered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: April/May 2020 (n = 587), September/October 2020 (n = 279), March/April 2021 (n = 590), and September 2021 (n = 353) with a nati...
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Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Isabel Kusche
Various actors employ the notion of risk when they discuss the future role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in society – sometimes as a general pointer to possible unwanted consequences of the under...
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Evaluation of information quality derived from AI-related information systems used for risk applications Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Shital A. Thekdi, Terje Aven
The use of artificial intelligence, such as text and image generators, is increasingly prevalent and accessible. These technologies have been both criticized and also promoted for their potential t...
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The relationships between citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity and their health risk perception Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 V. Tortosa-Edo, M. Á. López-Navarro
Risk perception is a pertinent issue in the situation of constant risks associated with the biological, climatic, or technological factors that affect citizens’ lives today. The context in which a ...
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Thoughts about intersectionality and risk. Interviews with key scholar Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson, Lisa Bowleg, Dean Curran, Kelly Hannah Moffat, Claudia Mitchell, Lori Peek, Ignacio Rubio C., Jens O. Zinn
Since the early twenty first century, feminist and intersectional approaches to risk research have gained momentum, initially emerging from studies on HIV risks within health studies. Over the past...
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Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Sramana Majumdar, Maanya Tewatia
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a novel and evolving experience impacting health, livelihoods, well-being, decision-making, and community life. While uncertainty is seen as integral to the pandemic ...
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A risk science perspective on the COVID-19 risk handling Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Terje Aven
This paper provides some reflections on the risk handling of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide: What went wrong, and what worked well? On many issues – for example the origin of the coronavirus, soci...
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Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Francisca N. Santana, Natalie Herbert, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Climate-related health hazards pose grave risks to human health and well-being. Individual-level behavioral response is critical given increasingly severe climate-related health hazards, such as wi...
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Aligning redundancy and flexibility for supply chain resilience: a literature synthesis Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Zhaojun Yang, Mengdi Wu, Jun Sun, Yali Zhang
Redundancy and flexibility are important key drivers for achieving supply chain resilience. However, there is a lack of comparison between these two elements, and their effectiveness on supply chai...
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Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jun Li, Ruoheng Liu, Yi-Hui Christine Huang
This article presents new arguments on the role of trust in the government and nationalist sentiments in fostering policy-compliant behaviors. In July and September 2020, we launched two waves of a...
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Rationalization, enchantment, and subjectivation – lessons for risk communication from a New Phenomenology of everyday reasoning Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jens O. Zinn, Manuel Schulz
The success of risk communication in democratic societies depends on a good understanding of people’s knowledge and ways of reasoning, which requires a broader perspective of ‘societal risk communi...
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The pro-environmental travel behaviour intention in the post-pandemic era: the role of risk communication, risk perception and environmental concerns Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jiale Zhang, Farzana Quoquab, Jihad Mohammad
Using the attribution theory, this study develops model of pro-environmental behaviour intention (PETBI) in post-pandemic era. Particularly, this study aims to examine the relation between environm...
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Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Linn Rabe, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen, Rolf Lidskog, Mats Eriksson
Using the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) as a lens, this study examines the making of risk communication in Swedish municipalities by comparing two central professions in this work, safety...
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Employee perspectives on risk management in a construction company Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Önder Ökmen, Martijn Leijten, Theodora Stratton, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt, Hans Bakker
In addition to the tools and techniques available, project risk management also depends on the attitudes of people in an organisation, how the available tools are used, and how the procedures are f...
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Assessing climate change scenarios in the Amazon Basin: a risk governance model Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nírvia Ravena, Norbert Fenzl, Rômulo Magalhães de Souza, Voyner Ravena Cañete, Roberto Célio Limão de Oliveira, Cleyton Alves Candeira Pimentel
The impacts of climate change are becoming more severe and can only be addressed through governance that spans from local to global levels. To enhance adaptation and response strategies, we need to...
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Before amplification: the role of experts in the dynamics of the social attenuation and amplification of risk Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Lisbet Fjaeran, Kenneth Pettersen Gould, Rob Goble
In this article, we use system/network theory together with the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) to show how expert actors over time and across multiple events can contribute to social...
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The fish scales of justice: the influence of perceived justice on social license to operate for aquaculture development Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Laura N. Rickard, Mary Beth Deline, Nathan Smith
Cultivating seafood in water environments, global aquaculture production is on the rise. As the sector grows, however, so too do challenges in securing the necessary social license to operate (SLO)...
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All atwitter about climate change: do civil and informative Twitter debates influence support for climate policy? Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lauren Lutzke, Caitlin Drummond Otten, Sanghamitra Sen, Joseph Árvai
This online experiment examined how participants (1,831 Twitter users in the U.S.) would perceive a conversation on Twitter between two politicians, a Democrat and a Republican, as they debate the ...
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Do knowledge, trust in source content, and magnitude of information influence COVID-19 risk perceptions? Comparing Ghanaian and US respondents Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Esi E. Thompson
Diverse outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic from different countries raise questions about how information related factors influence judgements about the risks of the outbreak. Adopting a comparati...
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Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022) Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Shruti Acharya, Thomas Aechtner, Sunil Venaik, Sanjay Dhir
Vaccine hesitancy has emerged as one of the top challenges to global health and has received increasing attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a descriptive bibliometric analysis of ...
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Terrorism-related worry in Sweden: the roles of gender and foreign background Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Saman Rashid
In 2017, Sweden experienced its first lethal first-hand terrorist attack. Although lethal terrorist attacks are regarded as rare, terrorism-related worry should be of substantial interest since pol...
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Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages Journal of Risk Research (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hye-Jin Paek, Thomas Hove
This study explores moderating and mediating mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of government responses to media messages about a risk. Focusing on the risk of radiation-contaminated water...