2 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Varying risk comparison elements: effects on public reactions
…found format variations swamped in their effect by concern about asbestos, with the absence of a narrative and the parental role being the only attributes that increased negative risk reactions. Multiple regression analyses found that multidimensionality…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Stability and inoculation of risk comparisons' effects under conflict: replicating and extending the "asbestos jury" study by Slovic et al
This experiment studied reactions to risk comparisons, not asbestos disease. The author replicated and extended a 1990 experiment by Slovic and colleagues. Participants played jurors in a hypothetical school board lawsuit against an asbestos installer. Students…