Study type:
Risk communication/perception study
(practical study)
Adolescents' perceived risk and personal experience with natural disasters: an evaluation of cognitive heuristics
risk
By:
Greening L, Dollinger SJ, Pitz G
Published in: Acta Psychol 1996; 91 (1): 27-38
Risk perception
Endpoint
- evaluation of availability (i.e., memory for incidents) heuristics and simulation (i.e., imagery) heuristics as possible mediators for the relation between personal experience and personal risk estimates for fatal lightning strike
Considered exposure sources
Investigated group
455 high school students in the USA with and without personal experience of weather disasters (lightning, flood and tornado) took part in the survey in 1987.
