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NOTICE: RiskWorld reprints the following abstracts with the permission of Fergus Bolger, organizer of a one-day conference on risk. For more information on this and planned additional conferences, visit http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/homes/fbolger/home.html .

List of Abstracts

For the June 13, 1997, One-Day Conference on Risk, City University, London

Brachinger, Hans Wolfgang, and Renate Schubert
"Risk Perception and the Gender Perspective"

Heyman, Bob and Mette Henriksen
"Heuristics About How Service Users and Professionals Perceive and Manage Health Risks"

Levidow, Les
"Mapping Risk Perceptions As Political Cultures: The Case of UK Biotechnology Regulation"

Loomes, Graham
"Probabilities vs. Money: A Trust of Some Fundamental Assumptions About Rational Decision Making"

McKenna, Frank P.
"Debiasing Illusory Self Estimates: The Role of Prefactual Thinking"

Nerb, Josef, and Hans Spada
"Cognitive and Emotional Evaluation of Environmental Risks"

Raab, Charles D., and Colin J. Bennett
"Distributing Privacy: Risks, Protection, and Policy"

Slovic, Paul
"Perceived Risk, Stigma, and the Vulnerable Society"

Starmer, Chris
"Cycling with Rules of Thumb: An Experimental Test for a New Form of Non-transitive Behaviour"

Welkenhuysen, Myriam, Lieve Denayer, and Gerry Evers-Kiebooms
"Risk Perception and Acceptability of Risk in a Population Tested for CF Carriership"

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