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 ...

I have always been interested in how people make decisions under uncertainty—especially decisions about safety. But it was not until I began studying housing conditions and disaster risk that I ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of the drugs designed to combat them, we risk losing the ability to treat even ...

Programs and policies that help households go beyond stocking up on food and medical supplies to invest in longer-term protections could overcome the risk perception gap and support adaptation to ...

(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.

Over the last five years Army Aviation has driven down Class A mishaps to less than one in 100,000 flight hours. One might ask, where do we go from here? Despite this success, we have to remain ...

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 ...

As communities learn to read the early signals of data center development, perception itself is becoming a siting ...

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 ...

The concept of risk is a constant topic of discussion in the fire service. Almost all of the work that we do involves some degree of risk. Certainly, operating inside of a burning building involves ...