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NOTICE: RiskWorld reprints the following abstracts with the permission of Dr. Paul Anand, Managing Editor for Risk Decision and Policy. Risk Decision and Policy is an international journal published by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, UK.

List of Abstracts

From the Journal Risk Decision and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 1998 (ISSN: 1357-5309)

Sandman, Peter M., Neil D. Weinstein, and William K. Hallman
"Communications to Reduce Risk Underestimation and Overestimation"

O'Connor, Robert E., Richard J. Bord, and Ann Fisher
"The Curious Impact of Knowledge About Climate Change on Risk Perceptions and Willingness to Sacrifice"

Hawks, David, and Simon Lenton
"Harm Minimization: A Basis for Decision Making in Drug Policy?"

Slovic Paul, and Ellen Peters
"Importance of Worldviews in Risk Perception, The"

Frederick, Shane, and Baruch Fischhoff
"Scope (In)sensitivity in Elicited Valuations"

Boholm, Åsa
"Visual Images and Risk Messages: Commemorating Chernobyl"

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