What makes risk acceptable? Revisiting the 1978 psychological dimensions of perceptions of technological risks

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2016.05.003zbMath1396.91643OpenAlexW2424784470MaRDI QIDQ730170

Elke U. Weber, Katherine T. Fox-Glassman

Publication date: 23 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2016.05.003

zbMATH Keywords

risky choiceperceived riskpsychological risk dimensionsrisk acceptability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

Cites Work

• Behavioral assumptions for a class of utility theories: a program of experiments
• Interpersonal comparisons of utility for 2 of 3 types of people
• An axiomatic theory of conjoint, expected risk
• Evaluating decision maker ``type under \(p\)-additive utility representations
• Perceived Risk Attitudes: Relating Risk Perception to Risky Choice

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