Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...

Laypeople's perceptions of health and safety risks have been widely studied, but only a few studies have addressed perceptions of ecological hazards. We assembled a list of 39 attributes of ecological hazards from the literatures on comparative risk assessment, ecological health, environmental...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Context of Risk Communication -- 1.2 The Goals of Risk Communication -- 1.3 The Goals of Communication Recipients -- 1.4 Criticisms of Risk Communication -- 1.5 How People Think about Risk and...

In this chapter, we report on three psychometric scaling studies, summarized in Table 1. In each study, participants rated a given set of hazards on a range of risk characteristics and indicated the degree of risk reduction and regulation they desired. Based on this data, we explore the...