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From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to war, the mass media bring into our lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to it? Using a social psychological framework, this book explores the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joffe, Hélène
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Risk perception.
Social psychology.
Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
Psychology, Social
Perception du risque.
Psychologie sociale.
Altérité (Théorie de la connaissance)
Altérité.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Risk perception
Social psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Responses to risks: an introduction
  • Human responses to risks : 'not me', 'the other is to blame'
  • A study of lay people's responses to a risk : HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
  • Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks
  • The source of linking risk and 'the other' : splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'
  • Social representations of risks
  • Emotional life : a new frontier for social theory
  • Changing social representations of risks.

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