For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of ...

A person’s appetite for risk speaks volumes about them. Someone who likes to gamble is a risk seeker, while someone who doesn’t is risk averse. Risk preferences extend to many areas of life. Consider ...

Short but severe episodes of flooding from hurricanes in Texas and Florida triggered a nationwide increase in flood insurance sign-ups depending on how socially connected a county was to the flooded ...

(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.

DTC Drug Ads: New Study Finds Perception of Risks Diluted by Lengthy Side Effects List A study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising published Monday in Nature Human Behavior finds that ...

Times of crises often call for strong and rapid action, but in polarized societies, strong top-down policies can backfire. Scientists present a conceptual model of how these dynamics could play out in ...

Teenagers' gender, sexual orientation, household income and their parents' level of education are among factors that impact whether they believe that nicotine, toxins and other chemicals in ...

According to the article, the major problem for comprehensive risk evaluations today is the insufficient chemical coverage of monitoring. Only less than 1% of the 300,000 chemicals, which the US ...