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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keller, Evelyn F
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103399
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-852X

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