What makes risk acceptable? Revisiting the 1978 psychological dimensions of perceptions of technological risks

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2016.05.003zbMATH Open1396.91643OpenAlexW2424784470MaRDI QIDQ730170FDOQ730170

Authors Katherine T. Fox-Glassman, Elke U. Weber 

Publication date 23 December 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2016.05.003

zbMATH Keywords

risky choiceperceived riskpsychological risk dimensionsrisk acceptability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Utility theory (91B16)

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