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Smoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidence

dc.contributor.authorViscusi, W. Kip
dc.contributor.authorMagat, Wesley A.
dc.contributor.authorHubert, Joel
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-29T17:40:15Z
dc.date.available2015-01-29T17:40:15Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.identifier.citation66 Southern Economic Journal 250 (1999)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/6889
dc.descriptionarticle published in economic journalen_US
dc.description.abstractSituations in which individuals receive information seldom involve scientific consensus over the level of the risk. When scientific experts disagree, people may process the information in an unpredictable manner. The original data presented here for environmental risk judgments indicate a tendency to place disproportionatew eight on the high risk assessment, irrespective of its source, particularly when the experts disagree. Cigarette smokers differ in their risk information processing from nonsmokers in that they place less weight on the high risk judgment when there is a divergence in expert opinion. Consequently, they are more likely to simply average competing risk assessments.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern Economic Journalen_US
dc.subject.lcshSmoking -- United States -- Psychological aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshDecision making -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshRisk-taking (Psychology) -- United Statesen_US
dc.titleSmoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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