risk perception

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• Risk perception — is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power. Several theories have… …   Wikipedia

• Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …   Wikipedia

• perception — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, distinct, keen (esp. AmE) ▪ common, general, popular, widely held, widespread ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Risk compensation — In ethology, risk compensation is an effect whereby individual people may tend to adjust their behavior in response to perceived changes in risk. It is seen as self evident that individuals will tend to behave in a more cautious manner if their… …   Wikipedia

• risk — The probability that an event will occur. attributable r. the rate of a disease or other outcome in exposed individuals that can be attributed to the exposure. competing r. an event that removes a subject from being at r. for an outcome under… …   Medical dictionary

• Cultural Theory of risk — The Cultural Theory of risk, often referred to simply as Cultural Theory (with capital letters; not to be confused with culture theory), consists of a conceptual framework and an associated body of empirical studies that seek to explain societal… …   Wikipedia

• Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception — DAMP deficits in attention, motor control and perception is a controversial psychiatric concept conceived by Christopher Gillberg. DAMP is similar to Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD), a concept that was formulated in the 1960s.[1] Both concepts… …   Wikipedia

• Delivery Risk — The risk that a counterparty in a transaction may not be able to fulfill its side of the agreement by failing to deliver the underlying asset or the cash value of the contract. Also called settlement risk. In the foreign exchange context,… …   Investment dictionary

• internal liquidity risk — A term defined by the Federal Reserve. Internal liquidity risk relates largely to funding problems arising from unfavorable changes in the perception of an institution in its various markets: local, regional, national, or international. See bank… …   Financial and business terms

• Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards — Auteur Urbano Fra Paleo Genre Essai Éditeur IOS Press Date de parution 2009 Nombre de pages 278 ISBN 978 1 60750 046 9 Building Safer Communities …   Wikipédia en Français

• Cultural cognition — The Cultural cognition of risk, sometimes called simply cultural cognition, refers to the hypothesized tendency of persons to form perceptions of risk and related facts that cohere with their self defining values. Research examining this… …   Wikipedia