Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust

Earle, Timothy C.; Cvetkovich, George

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8388-6_7

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“…Researchers have identified social trust as a key mediating factor in circumstances requiring collective action (Slovic, 1992;Earle and Cvetkovich, 1994). Social trust serves as a cognitive heuristic tool that decreases the complexities of social life to workable levels.…”

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The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: knowledge sufficiency versus public trust

Deurenberg-Yap¹,

Foo²,

Low³

et al. 2005

Health Promotion International

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The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: knowledge sufficiency versus public trust

Deurenberg-Yap¹,

Foo²,

Low³

et al. 2005

Health Promotion International

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“…Thus, a person's perception of hazard characteristics can include one's sense of efficacy, i.e., personal control over harm from the hazard (Weinstein, 1993;Rogers, 1985); one's trust in risk management agencies and institutions (Slovic, 1992) to manage harm to individuals or the ecosystem; and one's causal attributions for the occurrence of the hazard (Griffin et al, 2008;McGuire, 1974). Perceived hazard characteristics can also include, among other factors, perceived threat to one's personal values (Earle & Cvetkovich, 1994) and the personal or impersonal nature of the risk.…”

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Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing

Griffin

Dunwoody

Yang

2013

Annals of the International Communication Association

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Abstract:In an effort to better understand the ways in which risk messages can indirectly affect risk-related behaviors, this review explores the links between such messages and information seeking and processing. The narrative first offers a brief look at the literature that shores up salient concepts, then moves to a model of Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP), constructed by Griffin, Dunwoody, and Neuwirth (1999), which seeks to organize those factors into a coherent framework. The RISP model, thus, serves as a crossroads for selected concepts synthesized from Eagly and Chaiken's (1993) Heuristic-Systematic Model (HSM) of information processing, Ajzen's (1988) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and other bodies of research in communication and risk perception. Of particular interest is the extent to which the model can accommodate reactions to both personal risks and risks to persons and objects other than oneself. This last NOT THE PUBLISHED VERSION; this is the author's final, peer-reviewed manuscript. The published version may be accessed by following the link in the citation at the bottom of the page. 2 domain is particularly important to the development of policy in arenas such as public health and climate change. This review explores the theoretical underpinnings of the RISP model, then summarizes a decade of studies that have examined a subset of RISP variables most closely related to information seeking and processing: channel beliefs, perceived information gathering capacity, and two motivation variables, information sufficiency and informational subjective norms. Finally, the authors explore the research potential of both the model and of efforts to track the role of information in risk perceptions and behavior change.

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“…As Rowe and Frewer [3] discuss with reference to the 'deficit model', some authors have historically argued that the inadequacies of laypeople, in terms of their abilities to reason, and their knowledge and understanding of complex information and concepts, limit their capacity to effectively contribute to technical or policy decision processes (e.g. [4][5][6]). However, in the process of EU environmental impact assessment for example, scientists and economists are required to engage in public consultation, which constitutes modern standard practice (see [7]).…”

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A review of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) Public Dialogue Pilot (2015) for new nuclear build in the UK: lessons for engagement theory and practice

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We have discussed previously that a community-based, asset-based approach is required to achieve any sense of how social sustainability can be defined in a community setting within the context of energy developments. Our approach aims to initiate a lasting change within 'energy' communities through building social capital; focusing on community assets not deficits to define their social priorities. Through deliberation, we develop an understanding of social sustainability so that a community is well placed to enter discussions with government and industry regarding large energy developments that will directly affect them.We review the 2015 Generic Design Assessment (GDA) Public Dialogue Pilot process for potential new nuclear reactors in the UK. We examine the aims of the dialogue, giving particular attention to a comparison between the national sampling of citizens for the GDA and the local community-based, deliberative approach we have proposed previously. We find an ongoing tension between 'national' engagement processes (such as the GDA Public Dialogue Pilot process) and the specific requirements of those energy communities that live adjacent or close to energy infrastructure, manifested here by a conflict between the requirements of the convenor and those of participants regarding priority issues for discussion. We also reveal a paradox; despite participant Society for Radiological Protection

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Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust

Cited by 89 publications

References 25 publications

The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: knowledge sufficiency versus public trust

The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: knowledge sufficiency versus public trust

Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing

A review of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) Public Dialogue Pilot (2015) for new nuclear build in the UK: lessons for engagement theory and practice

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