Assessing Risk in the Absence of Quantifiability
A substantial literature on risk perception demonstrates the limits of human rationality, especially in the face of catastrophic risks. Human judgment, it seems, is flawed by the tendency to overestimate the magnitude of rare but evocative risks, while underestimating risks associated with commonpla...
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Springer Netherlands
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103399 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-852X |