The Affect Heuristic and Risk Perception – Stability Across Elicitation Methods and Individual Cognitive Abilities

The reliance on feelings when judging risks and benefits is one of the most fundamental valuation processes in risk perception. Although previous research suggests that the affect heuristic reliably predicts an inverse correlation between risk and benefit judgments, it has not yet been tested if the...

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Main Authors: Kenny Skagerlund, Mattias Forsblad, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00970/full