When Dread Risks Are More Dreadful than Continuous Risks: Comparing Cumulative Population Losses over Time.

People show higher sensitivity to dread risks, rare events that kill many people at once, compared with continuous risks, relatively frequent events that kill many people over a longer period of time. The different reaction to dread risks is often considered a bias: If the continuous risk causes the...

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Main Authors: Nicolai Bodemer, Azzurra Ruggeri, Mirta Galesic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3694073?pdf=render