Glynis M. Breakwell (University of Bath)

The Psychology of Risk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition explores the psychology of risk, examining how individuals think, feel and act. The questions addressed include: why do companies fail to protect against obvious hazards? What biases in risk estimation are common? How should we communicate levels of risk effectively? How should we reduce risky behaviour?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781107602700
• ISBN-10: 110760270X
• Artikelnr.: 40911547

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.