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Hazard identification studies have tended to test only one explanatory model at a time. Preliminary results of a pilot study intended to compare the relative explanatory power of two personality, two bounded rationality, and three “social construction of risk” models of hazard perceptions are reported.
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Johnson, B.B., Baltensperger, B. (1987). Community Risk Perception: A Pilot Study. In: Lave, L.B. (eds) Risk Assessment and Management. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6443-7_33
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