Possible participants were identified by Maternal and Child Health (M&CH) nurses in five metropolitan local government areas in Melbourne, Australia. Nurses were asked to approach mothers fitting the ...

It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

Imagine your leadership team sailing smoothly through calm waters—until it hits an unexpected iceberg. The forecasts were solid. The numbers were sound. Yet beneath the surface, something far more ...

(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.

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 ...

When I first delved into the study on hurricane preparedness among communities in Florida, I was struck by a paradox. Here we have a group of individuals living in one of the most hurricane-prone ...

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 ...