Affect, Generalization, and the Perception of Risk.

Abstract

Experimental manipulations of affect induced by a brief newspaper reports of a tragic event produced a pervasive increase in subjects' estimates of the frequency of many risks and other undesirable events. Contrary to expectation, the effect was independent of the similarity between the report and the estimated risk. An account of a fatal stabbing did not increase the frequency estimate of a closely related risk, homicide, more than the estimates of unrelated risks such as natural hazards. An account of a happy event which created positive affect produced a comparable global decrease in judged frequency of risks. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA131439

Entities

People

  • Amos Tversky
  • Eric J. Johnson

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Biomedical Research
  • Business Administration
  • Digestive System Neoplasms
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Military Research
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents
  • Navy
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Theoretical Analysis.