William J. Burns

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework of social amplification of risk which integrates the technical assessment and the social experience of risk, and propose that the social and economic impacts of an adverse event are determined not only by the direct physical consequences of the event, but by the interaction of psychological, cultural, social, and institutional processes that amplify or attenuate public experiences of risk and result in secondary impacts.

TL;DR: A shorter, psychometrically improved measure of numeracy—the ability to understand, manipulate, and use numerical information, including probabilities, is developed, which is the first to present the psychometric properties of several popular numeracy measures across a diverse sample of ages and educational level.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between public perceptions of risk, trust in risk management, and potential economic impacts of the current repository program using a confirmatory multivariate method known as covariance structure analysis.

TL;DR: This article developed structural models to explain how the impact upon society of an accident or other unfortunate event is influenced by the physical consequences of the event, perceived risk, media coverage, and public response.

TL;DR: Positive emotion about the crisis was the most predictive of increased risk perception, supporting the notion of risk as feelings and belief in one's ability to realize personal objectives despite the crisis.