Probability Communication

Probability Communication is a specialized form of risk communication that conveys the likelihood of uncertain outcomes using quantitative or qualitative expressions to facilitate understanding, judgment, and decision-making under uncertainty.

Publications

6.4K

Citations

240

Authors

139

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Risk Communication

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Absolute Risk CommunicationAudience Understanding Of ProbabilityCommunicating Low-probability High-impact EventsCommunicating Rare EventsComparative Risk CommunicationConditional Probability CommunicationGraphical Risk PresentationHeuristics In Risk CommunicationLikelihood FramingNumeric Risk Messages

Publications

How probable is probable? A numerical translation of verbal probability expressions

Journal of Forecasting · 1982 · 528 citations

Business, Political Communication, Forecasting +16

How Medical Professionals Evaluate Expressions of Probability

Augustine Kong, G. Octo Barnett, Frederick Mosteller et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1986 · 284 citations

Natural Sciences, Medical Education, Health Communication +9

Frequency or Probability? A Qualitative Study of Risk Communication Formats Used in Health Care

Marilyn M. Schapira, Ann B. Nattinger, Colleen A. McHorney · Medical Decision Making · 2001 · 246 citations

Public Health, Communication, Decision Sciences +17

The Directionality of Verbal Probability Expressions: Effects on Decisions, Predictions, and Probabilistic Reasoning

Karl Halvor Teigen, Wibecke Brun · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1999 · 237 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Communication and Problematic Integration: Understanding Diverging Probability and Value, Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Impossibility

Austin S. Babrow · Communication Theory · 1992 · 192 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Social Psychology +10

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Authors

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David R. Mandel
Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada
5 publications · 100 citations
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Marie Juanchich
University of Essex, United Kingdom
4 publications · 182 citations
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Adam J. L. Harris
University College London, United Kingdom
3 publications · 215 citations
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Brian J. Zikmund‐Fisher
University of Michigan, United States
3 publications · 480 citations
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R. M. Lark
Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom
3 publications · 109 citations
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Institutions

139

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Medical Decision Making
MDM · 9 publications · 791 citations
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Judgment and Decision Making
5 publications · 165 citations
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Risk Analysis
4 publications · 312 citations
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PubMed
Repository · 4 publications · 122 citations
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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
3 publications · 523 citations
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