When Precaution Creates Misunderstandings: The Unintended Effects of Precautionary Information on Perceived Risks, the EMF Case

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العنوان: When Precaution Creates Misunderstandings: The Unintended Effects of Precautionary Information on Perceived Risks, the EMF Case
المؤلفون: Martin Clauberg, Flavia N. da Silva Medeiros, Holger Schuetz, Peter M. Wiedemann, Julie Barnett, Rodney J. Croft, Rajesh Shukla, Franziska Boerner, Ray Kemp, Barney de Villiers, Toshiko Kikkawa, Jan M. Gutteling
المصدر: Risk Analysis.
بيانات النشر: Wiley, 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Actuarial science, media_common.quotation_subject, Poison control, Human factors and ergonomics, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Risk perception, Multinational corporation, Physiology (medical), Perception, Injury prevention, Business, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, media_common
الوصف: In the past decade, growing public concern about novel technologies with uncertain potential long-term impacts on the environment and human health has moved risk policies toward a more precautionary approach. Focusing on mobile telephony, the effects of precautionary information on risk perception were analyzed. A pooled multinational experimental study based on a 5 × 2 × 2 factorial design was conducted in nine countries. The first factor refers to whether or not information on different types of precautionary measures was present, the second factor to the framing of the precautionary information, and the third factor to the order in which cell phones and base stations were rated by the study participants. The data analysis on the country level indicates different effects. The main hypothesis that informing about precautionary measures results in increased risk perceptions found only partial support in the data. The effects are weaker, both in terms of the effect size and the frequency of significant effects, across the various precautionary information formats used in the experiment. Nevertheless, our findings do not support the assumption that informing people about implemented precautionary measures will decrease public concerns.
تدمد: 0272-4332
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12034
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::e5afe9be75221afc603ee1a244e6e9b1
https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12034
Rights: CLOSED
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........e5afe9be75221afc603ee1a244e6e9b1
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:02724332
DOI:10.1111/risa.12034