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Paul Slovic is president of Decision Research and serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Assistance.

Erwann Michel-Kerjan: The Collapse of Compassion Erwann Michel-Kerjan 2010

Paul Slovic is president of Decision Research and serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Assistance.

Erwann Michel-Kerjan: The Collapse of Compassion Erwann Michel-Kerjan 2010

Paul Slovic is president of Decision Research and serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Assistance.

Erwann Michel-Kerjan: The Collapse of Compassion Erwann Michel-Kerjan 2010

As a journalist and student, and proselytizer, of this knowledge, I was deeply honored that Paul Slovic found How Risky Is It, Really?

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

"The Perception of Risk", a collection of the seminal research papers into the psychology of risk perception, including many of the papers by Slovic, Fischhoff, Lichtenstein, and others.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

There are more than a dozen discrete psychological risk perception factors that contribute to what Slovic and Anne Finucane and others have labeled "the Affect Heuristic", their label for how we subconsciously combine the facts and how those facts feel, based on the risk perception factors as well as our experience and education and life circumstances and other emotional inputs, to come up with the judgments we make about risk.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

Beyond what is so richly reviewed in Thinking, Paul Slovic (a colleague of Kahneman) and Baruch Fischhoff (a student) and Sara Lichtenstein and many others have revealed several specific subconscious risk perception 'feelings factors' that guide our perceptions of possible peril.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

Recently, experts also suggested the prevalence of more extreme events: "We believe that many more extreme events will happen in the near future — floods and other natural disasters, new modes of terrorist attacks from al Qaeda, technological accidents, and pandemics," according to Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic, the editors of The Irrational Economist (PublicAffairs, 2010).

Prize Winners Can Help Response to Natural Disasters Kenny Tang 2010

It is perhaps even more urgent that we recognize 'Control' and 'Natural v Human-Made' and 'Personification' and all the specific risk perception factors Slovic et.al. have labeled, if we want to make more thoughtful, and healthier, decisions, about risks to our health and safety.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

"The Feeling of Risk", a collection of newer research papers on risk perception, edited by Slovic.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011