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Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Johnson, FR; Fisher, A
Published in: Risk Analysis
January 1, 1989

A recent comprehensive review of the literature identified a number of facts and principles governing risk communication. This paper evaluates several of these propositions using recent evidence from a field experiment in communicating the risks from radon in homes. At this point in the research, data relates primarily to the response of risk perceptions to different information treatments and different personal characteristics. The effect of various causal factors is sensitive to the particular test of risk perception applied. No information treatment was clearly superior for all tasks. An important implication of these findings is that risk communicators must determine what specific task or tasks the information program should enable people to do. Copyright © 1989, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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Risk Analysis

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EISSN

1539-6924

ISSN

0272-4332

Publication Date

January 1, 1989

Volume

9

Issue

2

Start / End Page

209 / 213

Related Subject Headings

  • Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
 

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Johnson, F. R., & Fisher, A. (1989). Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment. Risk Analysis, 9(2), 209–213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01241.x
Johnson, F. R., and A. Fisher. “Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Risk Analysis 9, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 209–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01241.x.
Johnson FR, Fisher A. Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment. Risk Analysis. 1989 Jan 1;9(2):209–13.
Johnson, F. R., and A. Fisher. “Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Risk Analysis, vol. 9, no. 2, Jan. 1989, pp. 209–13. Scopus, doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01241.x.
Johnson FR, Fisher A. Conventional Wisdom on Risk Communication and Evidence from a Field Experiment. Risk Analysis. 1989 Jan 1;9(2):209–213.
Journal cover image

Published In

Risk Analysis

DOI

EISSN

1539-6924

ISSN

0272-4332

Publication Date

January 1, 1989

Volume

9

Issue

2

Start / End Page

209 / 213

Related Subject Headings

  • Strategic, Defence & Security Studies