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Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits

By: Leroy C. Gould,Gerald T. Gardner,Donald R. DeLuca,Adrian R. Tiemann,Leonard W. Doob,Jan A. J. Stolwijk

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Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits

By: Leroy C. Gould,Gerald T. Gardner,Donald R. DeLuca,Adrian R. Tiemann,Leonard W. Doob,Jan A. J. Stolwijk

The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was said to herald a new mood of opposition to government regulation. But at the same time, large and vocal segments of the population have been demanding that corporations and regulatory agencies address public concerns about technological safety. What do we really know about people's perceptions of technological risk and their judgments about appropriate levels of technological regulation? Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits analyzes the results of a unique body of survey data—the only large-scale, representative survey of public attitudes about risk management in such technologies as nuclear power, handguns, auto travel, and industrial chemicals. The findings demonstrate that public judgments are not simply anti-technological or irrational, but rather the product of a complex set of factors that includes an awareness of benefits as well as a sensitivity to the "qualitative" aspects of risk (how catastrophic, dreaded, or poorly understood a hazard seems to be). This volume offers striking evidence that whatever Americans may think about government regulation in general, they are remarkably consistent in desiring stricter regulation of technological safety. These conclusions suggest that the current trend away from regulation of technology reflects a less than perfect reading of public sentiment.

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290

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610442555

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9781610442558

Pathways to People

By: Leonard W. Doob

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Pathways to People

By: Leonard W. Doob

In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Leonard Doob explores what we know about human action and interaction in order to show how people succeed or fail in their constant attempts to understand each other. He organizes our ways of knowing each other into two sorts of "pathways to people.” The first pathways are those that have been investigated by psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. Mr. Doob offers a critical summary of our systematic knowledge in the area of what is sometimes called "person perception.” By and large, he is dissatisfied with what we think we know, because too much of the research stems from a convenient, but not typical, sample of mankind - the college student. The second set of pathways are those intended to improve judgment or avoid error, and they come not only from the scientific disciplines but also from the humanities, along with common sense. Together, the pathways constitute the factors or variables that determine how and why human judgments are made - and how they should be made. The exposition is occasionally interrupted by a devil’s advocate offering lively and cutting criticism of what is being said. In this manner, Leonard Doob opens another pathway - between reader and author - which makes reading this book a rich and provocative experience.

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354

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Yale University Press

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0300105509

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9780300105506

Sustainers and Sustainability

Attitudes, Attributes, and Actions for Survival

By: Leonard W. Doob

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Sustainers and Sustainability

Attitudes, Attributes, and Actions for Survival

By: Leonard W. Doob

This book, the result of the author's experience in psychology and forestry studies, studies the relation between these two seemingly different disciplines. The author indicates how human actions and programs affect a range of threatened or endangered situations ranging from forests and species of animals to our own traditional values and cultural groups. Sustainers, the persons who advocate and support sustainability, possess or must come to possess certain characteristics that are shown to be renunciation, knowledge, attitude, controllability, and patterning. This book seeks to discover and advocates how and why those attributes must be strengthened if we are to sustain our environment and ourselves.

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196

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Praeger

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0275953149

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9780275953140

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Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits

Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits

Pathways to People

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