Decision Research

Perception of Risk

Studies of risk perception examine the judgments people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid ri...

How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits

Judging probable cause.

Les auteurs ont passe en revue et complete diverses theories de la causalite proposees par des psychologues, des philosophes, des statisticiens et d'autres auteurs, cherchant a ...

Rating the Risks

Evidence for racial prejudice at the implicit level and its relationship with questionnaire measures.

The content of spontaneously activated racial stereotypes among White Americans and the relation of this to more explicit measures of stereotyping and prejudice were investigate...

Informing and Educating the Public About Risk

The objective of informing and educating the public about risk issues seems easy to attain in principle, but, in practice, may be difficult to accomplish. This paper attempts to...

Perceived informativeness of facts.

There are many tasks in which people are called on to disregard information that they have already processed. Dealing with inadmissible evidence in a courtroom setting, second-g...

Assessing uncertainty in physical constants

Assessing the uncertainty due to possible systematic errors in a physical measurement unavoidably involves an element of subjective judgment. Examination of historical measureme...

Behavioral decision theory perspectives on risk and safety

Modeling the Societal Impact of Fatal Accidents

A number of proposals have been put forth regarding the proper way to model the societal impact of fatal accidents. Most of these proposals are based on some form of utility fun...