Learning about Risk : Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard Information / W. Kip Viscusi, Wesley A. Magat.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)Content type: - 9780674436855
- 9780674436848
- Communication in consumer education
- Communication in industrial safety
- Consumer Product Safety
- Consumer protection
- Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
- Hazardous substances
- Risk Factors
- Chemicals -- United States -- Safety measures
- Communication in consumer education -- United States
- Communication in industrial safety -- United States
- Consumer protection -- United States
- Hazardous substances -- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
- 381/.33/0973
- HC110.C63
- online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- 1. Information Processing and Individual Decisions -- 2. Cognitive Considerations in Presenting Risk Information -- 3. The Design of the Consumer Information Study -- 4. The Effect of Risk Information on Precautionary Behavior -- 5. Risk-Dollar Tradeoffs, Risk Perceptions, and Consumer Behavior -- 6. Hazard Warnings for Workplace Risks: Effects on Risk Perceptions, Wage Rates, and Turnover -- 7. Implications for Economic Behavior -- Appendixes, Notes, References, Index -- APPENDIX A. Cleaning Agent Questionnaire -- APPENDIX B. Drain Opener Questionnaire -- APPENDIX C. Variation in Consumers’ Valuation of Product Attributes -- APPENDIX D. Effect of Labels on Other Consumer Actions -- APPENDIX E. Linearity of Rating Scale -- APPENDIX F. Additional Results about Injury Valuations -- APPENDIX G. Chemical Labeling Questionnaire for Workplace Risks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
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In English.
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