Glynis M. Breakwell

The Psychology of Risk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition explores the psychology of risk, examining how individuals think, feel and act.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9781107017016
• ISBN-10: 1107017017
• Artikelnr.: 40910096

Autorenporträt

Glynis M. Breakwell is Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath. She is a psychologist specialising in leadership, identity processes, risk communication and military cultures, and her research has resulted in her acting as an adviser to a number of government departments including the Department of Health, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Defence. Professor Dame Breakwell has published over twenty books and hundreds of journal articles. Her latest publication is the fourth edition of Research Methods in Psychology (co-edited with Smith and Wright, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A social psychological framework for analysing risk
2. Hazard perception
3. Individual and group differences in risk perception
4. Decision-making about risks
5. Risk and emotion
6. Risk communication
7. Errors and accidents, emergencies and disasters
8. Risk management: risk in complex systems
9. Social amplification, social representations and identity processes
10. Changing risk reactions: lessons from the psychology of risk.