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Experience-based Risk Perception

Experience-Based Risk Perception is a cognitive framework within climate change risk perception that attributes individuals' assessment of environmental risks to personal or observed sensory experiences with climate-related events, distinguishing it from risk perceptions derived solely from statistical, abstract, or symbolic information.

298

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23.2K

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811

Authors

399

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2017–2026

117

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Publications

298

Are flood victims more concerned about climate change than other people? The role of direct experience in risk perception and behavioural response

Lorraine Whitmarsh · Journal of Risk Research · 2008 · 765 citations

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Emotions, Trust, and Perceived Risk: Affective and Cognitive Routes to Flood Preparedness Behavior

Teun Terpstra · Risk Analysis · 2011 · 680 citations

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The Role of Affect and Worldviews as Orienting Dispositions in the Perception and Acceptance of Nuclear Power<sup>1</sup>

Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic · Journal of Applied Social Psychology · 1996 · 647 citations

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Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States

Samuel D. Brody, Sammy Zahran, Arnold Vedlitz et al. · Environment and Behavior · 2007 · 629 citations

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The Role of the Affect and Availability Heuristics in Risk Communication

Carmen Keller, Michael Siegrist, Heinz Gutscher · Risk Analysis · 2006 · 556 citations

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Authors

811

  1. PS
    Paul Slovic

    Decision Research, United States

    7 publications · 1.4K citations

    7

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  2. EP
    Ellen Peters

    The Ohio State University, United States

    5 publications · 957 citations

    5

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  3. LS
    Lennart Sjöberg

    Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

    5 publications · 905 citations

    5

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  4. NP
    Nick Pidgeon

    Cardiff University, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 589 citations

    5

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  5. SS
    Silke Schmidt

    Universität Greifswald, Germany

    4 publications · 199 citations

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Institutions

399

  1. Decision Research

    Eugene, United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. Tyndall Centre

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. University of Maine

    Orono, United States

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    593 citations

  5. Cardiff University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    334 citations

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Venues

  1. Risk Analysis

    46 publications · 6.3K citations

    36

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  2. Journal of Risk Research

    23 publications · 2K citations

    18

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  3. Natural Hazards

    7 publications · 586 citations

    7

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  4. Judgment and Decision Making

    6 publications · 272 citations

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