For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of ...

Effective risk communication can be a vital element in the development and implementation of environmental health policies, standards, regulations, and practices. Increasingly, and largely due to past ...

It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

People perceive different types of radiation risks in very different ways. Surveys of the general public in the United States and elsewhere have consistently shown that people perceive nuclear power ...

Janet Yang, professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2021 Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst Award from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). SRA ...

From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

An ad hoc multidisciplinary committee explored what is known about effective science communication and described a comprehensive research agenda to improve the communication of science to inform ...