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Risk Perception

AUSEMS, M., I. MESTERS, VAN BREUKELEN, G. & DE VRIES, H. (2003), "Do Dutch 11-12 years olds who never smoke, smoke experimentally or smoke regularly have different demographic backgrounds and perceptions of smoking?", European Journal of Public Health, 13(2): 160-167
  
BARON, J. & HERSHEY, J.C. (1988), "Outcome bias in decision evaluation", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54: 569-579
  
BARON, J., HERSHEY, J.C. & KUNREUTHER, H. (2000), "Determinants of priority for risk reduction: the role of worry", Risk Analysis, 20(4): 413-27
  
BOHOLM, A. (1998), "Comparative studies of risk perception: a review of twenty years of research", Journal of Risk Research, 1(2): 135-163
  
BROWN, S.L. (2005), "Relationships between risk-taking behaviour and subsequent risk perceptions", British Journal of Psychology, 96(2): 155-164
  
BROWNING, J. J. &  WILDE, G. J. S.(1977), "Effect of Alcohol Ingestion on Risk Perception under Realistic and Simulated Conditions", Toxicomanies, 10(4): 253-267
  
BURNS, W.J., HAMPSON, S.E., SEVERSON, H.H. & SLOVIC, P. (1993), "Alcohol-related risk taking among teenagers: An investigation of contributing factors and a discussion of how marketing principles can help", Advances in Consumer Research, 20: 183-214
  
CAUSSE, P., D. R. KOUABENAN & DELHOMME, P. (2004), "Alcohol-related-accident risk perception by young drivers: Some determinants of comparative optimism", Travail Humain, 67(3): 235-256
 
CHERPITEL, C. J. (1999), "Substance use, injury, and risk-taking dispositions in the general population", Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research, 23(1): 121-126
 
COOK, P. A. & BELLIS, M. A.(2001), "Knowing the risk: Relationships between risk behaviour and health knowledge", Public Health, 115(1): 54-61
 
CRAWFORD, E.,  MOORE, C. F. & AHL, V.E. (2004), "The roles of risk perception and borderline and antisocial personality characteristics in college alcohol use and abuse", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34(7): 1371-1394
 
CUTLER, D. & GLAESER, E. (2005), "What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviours", NBER Working Papers
   

DAVIS, C., PATTE, K., TWEED, S. & CURTIS, C.  (2007).  "Personality traits associated with decision-making defecits".  Personality and Individual Differences 42 (2): 279-290

DENSCOMBE, M. (2001), "Critical incidents and the perception of health risks: The experiences of young people in relation to their use of alcohol and tobacco", Health, Risk and Society, 3(3), 293-306
 
FRENCH, D.P., MARTEAU, T.M., SUTTON, S. & KIMOTH, L. (2004), "Different measures of risk perceptions yield different patterns of interaction for combinations of hazards: Smoking, family history and cardiac events", Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, 17: 381-393
 
FRICK, U., J. REHM, KNOLL, A., REIFINGER, M & HASFORD, J. (2000), "Perception of traffic accident risk and decision to drive under light alcohol consumption - A double-blind experimental study", Journal of Substance Abuse, 11(3): 241-251
 
GIGERENZER, G. (2004), "Dread risk, September 11 and fatal traffic accidents", Psychological Science, 15(4), 286-287
 
GREENFIELD, T. K. & ROGERS, J. D.(1999), "Alcoholic beverage choice, risk perception and self-reported drunk driving: effects of measurement on risk analysis", Addiction, 94(11): 1735-1743.
 

HAMPSON, S. E., SEVERSON, H.H., BURNS, W.J., SLOVIC, P. & FISHER, K.J. (2001), "Risk perception, personality factors and alcohol use among adolescents", Personality and Individual Differences, 30(1): 167-181             

JOHNSON, R.J., MCCAUL, K.D. & KLEIN, W.M.P. (2002), "Risk involvement and risk perception among adolescents and young adults", Journal of Behavioural Medicine, 25(1): 67-82 
 
KOZLOWSKI, L.T., GOLDBERG, M.E. & YOST, B.A. (2000), "Measuring smokers perceptions of the health risks from smoking light cigarettes", American Journal of Public Health, 90(8): 1318-1319
 
LEE, C., SU, Y. & HAZARD, B.P. (1998), "The contingent effects of risk perception on risk-taking behaviour: adolescent participative orientation and marijuana use", Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 27(1): 17-27
 
LEHTO, M. R., JAMES, D.S. & FOLEY, J.P. (1994), "Exploratory Factor-Analysis of Adolescent Attitudes toward Alcohol and Risk", Journal of Safety Research, 25(4): 197-213
 
LEIGH, B.C. (1999), "The risks of drinking among young adults- Peril, chance, adventure: concepts of risk, alcohol use and risky behaviour in young adults", Addiction, 94(3): 371-383
 
LOEWENSTEIN, G. & MATHER, J. (1990), "Dynamic processes in risk perception", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 3(2): 155-175
 
LUNDBORG, P. & LINDGREN, B. (2002), "Risk perceptions and alcohol consumption among young people", The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 25(2): 165-183
 
MILLSTEIN, S.G. & HALPERN-FELSHER, B.L. (2002), "Perceptions of risk and vulnerability", Journal of Adolescent Health, 31(1), pp.10-27
 
MONGRAIN, S. & STANDING L. (1989), "Impairment of cognition, risk-taking, and self-perception by alcohol", Perceptual and Motor Skills, 69(1):199-210
 
MULLET, E., CIUTAD, N & RIVIERE-SHAFIGHI, S. (2004), "Cognitive processes involved in the assessment of health hazards’ severity", Health, Risk and Society, 6(3): 277-288
 
MURGRAFF, V., PARROTT, A. & BENNETT, P. (1999), "Risky single-occasion drinking among young people- definition, correlates, policy and intervention: a broad overview of research findings", Alcohol and Alcoholism, 34(1): 3-14
 
MYERS, D.G. (2001), "Do we fear the right things?", American Psychological Society Observer, 14(10)
 
ONCKEN, C., MCKEE, S., KRISHNAN-SARIN, S., O’MALLEY, S. & MAZURE, C.M. (2005), "Knowledge and perceived risk of smoking-related conditions: a survey of cigarette smokers", Preventative Medicine, 40: 779-784
 
REYNA, V.F. & FARLEY, F.  (2006).  "Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making, Implications for Theory, Practice and Public Policy".  Psychological Science in the Public Interest 7(1): 1-44
      

RITOV, I. & BARON, J. (1995), "Outcome knowledge, regret and omission bias", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 64(2): 119-127
 
ROSENDAHL, K.I., GALANTI, M.R., GILLJAM, H. & AHLBOM, A. (2005), "Knowledge about tobacco and subsequent use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco among Swedish adolescents", Journal of Adolescent Health, 37(3): 224-8
 
RUNDMO, T. (2002), "Associations between affect and risk perception", Journal of Risk Research, 5(2), 119-135
 
SCHMID, H. (1998), "Female and male students' intention to accept illicit drugs as a function of their risk perception and risk taking", Swiss Journal of Psychology, 57(1): 47-56
 
SEN, A. (2002), "Health: perception versus observation", British Medical Journal, 324(7342): 860-861

SJÖBERG, L. (1998), "Risk perception of alcohol consumption", Alcoholism- Clinical and Experimental Research, 22(7): 277-284
 
SJÖBERG, L. (2000), "Factors in Risk Perception", Risk Analysis, 20(1): 1-12
 
SLOVIC, P. (1987), "Perception of risk", Science, 236(4799): 280-285

SLOVIC, P. (2000), "What does it mean to know a cumulative risk? Adolescents’ perceptions of short-term and long-term consequences of smoking", Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, 13(2): 259-266
 
SMITH, A. M. A. & ROSENTHAL, D.A. (1995), "Adolescents Perceptions of Their Risk Environment", Journal of Adolescence, 18(2): 229-245
 
TRUMBO, C.W. & MCCOMAS, K.A. (2003), "The function of credibility in information processing for risk perception", Risk Analysis, 23(2): 343-353
      

ULLEBERG, P.  (2002).  "Personality subtypes of young drivers.  Relationship to risk-taking preferences, accident involvement, and response to a traffic safety campaign".  Transportation Research Part F4: 279-297
 
VISCUSI, W.K., HAKES, J.K. & CARLIN, A. (1997), "Measures of mortality risks", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 14(3), 213-233 
 
VISCUSI, W.K. (2000), "Comment: The perils of qualitative smoking risk measures", Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, 13(2): 267-271
 
WEINSTEIN, N.D. (1980). "Unrealistic optimism about future life events". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(5), 806-820. 
 
WEINSTEIN, N.D. (1987). "Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: conclusions from a community-wide sample". Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 10(5), 481-500    

WILD, T. C. & CUNNINGHAM, J. (2001), "Psychosocial determinants of perceived vulnerability to harm among adult drinkers", Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62(1): 105-113