Risk Communication
A Mental Models Approach
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- Authors:
- M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Ann Bostrom, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington
- Date Published: July 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521002561
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This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain, in readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. The approach draws together methods from the natural and social sciences, providing a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is demostrated with varied examples including electromagnetic fields, climate change, radon, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Read more- Provides clear step-by-step explanations of how to develop risk communications using a mental models-based approach
- Includes numerous practical examples
- The approach has a solid theoretical foundation and has received extensive empirical evaluation
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'The authors' idea of expert models of risk … is a very useful one, both for practitioners and academics doing work in this area. In fact, the chapters outlining these models made a very important and unique contribution in the field of risk communication and for that reason alone the book should be on the reading list of everyone doing research in that area.' International Journal of Public Opinion Research
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- Date Published: July 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521002561
- length: 366 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 41 b/w illus. 14 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Carnegie Mellon mental models approach
3. Creating an expert model of the risk
4. Mental model interviews
5. Confirmatory questionnaires
6. Development and evaluation of communications
7. Case studies: applications to environmental risks
8. A mental models approach to HIV/AIDS
9. Some concluding remarks
Appendices.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Sociology of Risk
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