List of figures .............................................. viii
List of boxes ................................................... x
Preface to the second edition .................................. xi
Acknowledgements .............................................. xiv
1 A social psychological framework for analysing risk .......... 1
2 Hazard perception ........................................... 20
3 Individual and group differences in risk perception ......... 52
4 Decision-making about risks ................................. 85
5 Risk and emotion ........................................... 122
6 Risk communication ......................................... 143
7 Errors and accidents; emergencies and disasters ............ 190
8 Risk management; risk in complex systemsм .................. 217
9 Social amplification, social representations and identity
processes .................................................. 254
10 Changing risk reactions: lessons from the psychology of
risk ....................................................... 297
References .................................................... 312
Lndex ......................................................... 355
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