The cultural theory of risk, often referred to simply as Cultural Theory (with capital letters; not to be confused with culture theory), consists of a conceptual...

The cultural cognition of risk, sometimes called simply cultural cognition, is the hypothesized tendency to perceive risks and related facts in relation...

approaches (cultural theory) and interdisciplinary approaches (social amplification of risk framework). The study of risk perception arose out of the observation...

of people exposed. Hazards with high perceived risk are in general seen as less acceptable and more in need of reduction. Cultural Theory views risk perception...

on risk and danger. They used the cultural theory of risk to explore how and why social groups disregard some dangers but identify others as risks that...

Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (first published 1992) is a collection of essays by the influential British cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas...

the greatest possible variety of activity and development. For human character is diverse." The cultural theory of risk holds egalitarianism—with fatalism...

In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even...

perceptions of how society's rules should be applied. Kahan is best known for his work on the cultural theory of risk. This research delves into cultural cognition...

to be refined and redeployed in laying the foundations of the cultural theory of risk. Natural Symbols was reviewed by: K. O. L. Burridge in Man, New...

theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was...

to risks. This research direction typically adapts theories from social psychology to risk-specific communication contexts, such as the Theory of Planned...

dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory that asserts, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity...

Safety Issues. 1995. Harvard University Press. (posthumous) Cultural theory of risk Cornucopian Risk perception Aaron (B.) Wildavsky. Detroit: Gale. 2003. {{cite...

recent research is based on the cultural theory of risk, which he refers to as "neo-Durkheimian institutional theory". He has conducted government-backed...

particularly anthropology (including cultural anthropology and ethnology), sociology (including sociology of culture and cultural criminology), communication studies...

Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful...

goals, and crime. Strain theory was originally introduced by Robert King Merton (1938), and argues that society's dominant cultural values and social structure...

of various policy debates, including nuclear safety. terrorism. public health. environmental management. Cultural theory of risk Risk aversion Risk perception...

Communication theory is a proposed description of communication phenomena, the relationships among them, a storyline describing these relationships, and...

entitled Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk, in which he uses the St. Petersburg paradox to show that expected value theory must be normatively...

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively...

science. This type of cultural sociology may be loosely regarded as an approach incorporating cultural analysis and critical theory. Cultural sociologists tend...

Goldscheid's theory of organic capital and the human economy also served as a precedent for later concepts of human capital. The use of the term in the...

Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals'...

Attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary framework, concerning the relationships between humans, particularly the importance of early bonds...

practitioners of these fields have attempted to develop methods and theories to compensate for or eliminate cultural bias. Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture...

the convergence of cultural and criminal processes.: 395  As opposed to other theories, cultural criminology views crime in the context of an offenders culture...

alternative communication Communication rights Communication theory as a field Cross-cultural communication Intercultural communication Proactive communications...

(2011). Risk and Crisis Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-470-59273-1. Kreps, G. (2009). Health Communication Theory. In...