From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

Risk perception describes how stakeholders evaluate and weigh their concerns. Since the 1960’s, social scientists have conducted substantial research to understand how individuals perceive danger.

Even as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in many places, some U.S. states are starting to relax social distancing guidelines. With public health experts often disagreeing with politicians pushing ...

Using data from the largest cross-sectional survey of climate change perceptions ever conducted, researchers report the first global assessment of factors underlying climate change awareness and risk ...

This study examines the major differences between native-born and foreign-born residents of the United States on measures of environmental risk perception and risk attitudes. Hypotheses derived from ...

This paper explores the impact of national geopolitical risk perception on corporate innovation behavior and its underlying mechanisms. We construct a national-level geopolitical risk perception index ...