Perception of Risk¶
Slovic, P. (1987). Perception of Risk. Science, 236(4799), 280-285.
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Primes¶
- Containment
- Organizational learning about silos applies to information compartmentalization in security contexts, a dynamic Slovic (1987) explores in his foundational work on how perceived versus actual risk shapes the political sustainability of protective measures.
This sourceFoundational risk-perception research: documents the systematic divergence between perceived and actuarial risk and analyzes how visibility, dread, and familiarity shape the political sustainability of risk-mitigation infrastructure.
- Organizational learning about silos applies to information compartmentalization in security contexts, a dynamic Slovic (1987) explores in his foundational work on how perceived versus actual risk shapes the political sustainability of protective measures.
- Evolutionary Trap
- Public health — vaccine-fear cues outweighing diffuse benefit cues, or antibiotic over-prescription driven by satisfaction cues that do not track infection risk.
This sourceEstablishes that public risk perception is driven by 'dread' and 'unknown' factors and affect rather than expected harm, so salient fear cues (e.g. of vaccines) can outweigh diffuse benefit cues — the public-health cue mismatch.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Slovic's abstract supports only the general frame that lay judgments of hazards must be understood or well-intended safety policy fails; it states no dread/unknown mechanism and no vaccine or antibiotic example.
“This work assumes that those who promote and regulate health and safety need to understand how people think about and respond to risk. Without such understanding, well-intended policies may be ineffective.”
- Public health — vaccine-fear cues outweighing diffuse benefit cues, or antibiotic over-prescription driven by satisfaction cues that do not track infection risk.
Domain-specific¶
- Spotlight Fallacy
- Officials repeatedly confront public fear concentrated on vivid, heavily covered hazards — shark attacks, terrorism, child abduction, plane crashes — that kill very few, while quietly lethal risks (car crashes, heart disease, home-pool drowning) draw little alarm
This sourceThat lay perception of risk rests on qualitative hazard characteristics such as dread and unfamiliarity rather than on annual fatality counts.
- Officials repeatedly confront public fear concentrated on vivid, heavily covered hazards — shark attacks, terrorism, child abduction, plane crashes — that kill very few, while quietly lethal risks (car crashes, heart disease, home-pool drowning) draw little alarm
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