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Why have some people changed their attitudes toward nuclear power after the accident in Fukushima?

Siegrist, Michael; Sütterlin, Bernadette; Keller, Carmen - In: Energy Policy 69 (2014) C, pp. 356-363

The nuclear accident in Fukushima and the subsequent discussions about nuclear power influenced public acceptance of … this technology. The aim of the present study was to examine why after the Fukushima accident some people converted from … points were used. The first survey was conducted about 15 months before the accident in Fukushima and the second survey was …

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Support, opposition, emotion and contentious issue risk perception

Bourassa, Maureen; Doraty, Kelton; Berdahl, Loleen; … - In: International journal of public sector management : IJPSM 29 (2016) 2, pp. 201-216

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Hedonic valuation of the perceived risks of nuclear power plants

Boes, Stefan; Nüesch, Stephan; Wüthrich, Kaspar - In: Economics letters 133 (2015), pp. 109-111

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Why, how, what for? : motivations, actions and expectations in habitual entrepreneurship

Gordon, Scott R.; Steffens, Paul R. - 2009

Principal topic: Is habitual entrepreneurship different? Answering this is important to the field, however there is little systematic evidence, thus far. We addresses this by examining the role experience plays at three possible points of difference: motivations, actions and expectations; and by...

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Drinking is different! Examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption

Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - In: Empirical Economics 63 (2022) 5, pp. 2785-2815

Locus of control (LOC) measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions and her life's outcomes. While earlier literature has shown that an increasing internal LOC is associated with increased health-conscious behavior in domains such as smoking,...

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Climate risk perceptions of businesses: The role of experience and objective risk factors

Rieger-Fels, Markus - 2025

The changing climate requires businesses to take adaptive action. A key prerequisite for optimal adaptive action is that businesses are aware of the climate risks that they face. This, in turn, necessitates that businesses do not base their risk perception solely on prior experience, or a lack...

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Determinants of the possibilities by investors' risk-taking: Empirical evidence from Vietnam

Wong, Wing Keung - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper focuses on determining the factors influencing investors' risk-taking through empirical evidence from Vietnam. This study investigates risk perception, expected return and herding behavior, and other determinants such as historical volatility and subjective financial risk attitude;...

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On Kantian tendencies during the early corona pandemic in Germany

Feufel, Markus A.; Schmid, Christine; Westfal, Viola - In: Mind & Society 20 (2020) 2, pp. 221-227

Based on an ad hoc online survey about risk perception and preventive behaviours, we describe three chronological phases related to how people in Germany perceived the Corona pandemic between March 22 and May 10, 2020. In general, participants reported to be less concerned about their own risk...

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Essays on econometric modeling of subjective perceptions of risks in environment and human health

Shaw, Douglass W. (contributor); … - 2008

A large body of literature studies the issues of the option price and other ex-antewelfare measures under the microeconomic theory to valuate reductions of risks inherentin environment and human health. However, it does not offer a careful discussion of howto estimate risk reduction values using...

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The risk perceptions of individual investors

Veld, Chris; Veld-Merkoulova, Yulia - 2008

Risk perceptions of individual investors are studied by asking experimental questions to 2,226 members of a consumer panel. Their responses are analyzed in order to find which risk measures they implicitly use. We find that most investors implicitly use more than one risk measure. For those...

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