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{"title":"When to dismiss an alternative hypothesis or theory? A risk and uncertainty perspective","authors":"T. Aven","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2288011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2288011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"59 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban gardening as a risk-reduction strategy – an intersectional analysis of top-down gardening initiatives","authors":"Emelie Larsson, Katarina Giritli Nygren","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2288001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2288001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138600929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk in transit: a case study of the introduction of a new risk definition for risk management in the Norwegian petroleum industry","authors":"Torgeir Kolstø Haavik, Trond Kongsvik, Marius Vigen","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2270663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2270663","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, a new risk definition was presented by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA-N) as a petroleum regulation update and ‘rolled out’ in the PSA-N organisation and the oil and gas industry as a regulatory guideline, changing the definition of risk from ‘the combination of probabilities and consequences’ to ‘the consequences of an activity, with associated uncertainties’. This article reports on research that explores the industrial effects of this change. We have conducted qualitative interviews with both operator employees and consultants, and we have undertaken a qualitative cross-sectional analysis, where we explored how the implementation of the new risk definition is experienced by different actors in the industry. The analysis draws on translation perspectives from institutional theory and focuses on the developments of theory and practice influenced by the interaction between the industry and consultancies, academia and the regulator. We find that the new risk definition has had some practical influence on risk management, particularly exemplified through a generally raised awareness about uncertainty, in addition to some direct effects on risk analysis tools. The study also demonstrates pros et cons with a functional regulatory regime. On one hand it gives the companies significant leeway for them to tailor their treatment and evaluation of uncertainty to the context. On the other hand, with different understandings of uncertainty among the companies, it is more challenging for the regulator to perform audits in a structured manner. Furthermore, the study sheds light on different power aspects that are at play, influencing the interplay between standardised definitions, legislative instruments, practice, experience, and expertise.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135570044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Utilizing MRBQ to investigate risky rider behavior in Chinese young riders: combining the effect of Big Five personality and sensation seeking","authors":"Zhenhao Yu, Weina Qu, Yan Ge","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2270669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2270669","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe motorcycle rider behavior questionnaire (MRBQ) is one of the most extensively used questionnaires to explore risky rider behavior worldwide. However, whether previous research adopted other scales or other versions of MRBQ, neither of them fully cover the typicality of the risky behavior in Chinese motorcyclists. Moreover, past research investigated the MRBQ while combining the joint effect of Big Five personality (BFP) and sensation seeking lacks. Our study aims to revise the Chinese version of MRBQ in young riders and explore the relationship among BFP, sensation seeking, MRBQ, and self-reported traffic violations. 278 online participants filled out the Big Five Inventory measuring BFP, the sensation seeking scale, MRBQ items selected from previous versions in other countries, and self-reported traffic violations from the traffic management system (crashes, traffic violation frequency, penalty points, and fines). Exploratory factor analysis suggested 7 factors (safety equipment, traffic errors, speed violations, control errors, stunts, traffic violations, and safety violations), and the internal consistency reliability ranged from 0.58–0.91. The hierarchical linear regression analysis showed that agreeableness and conscientiousness in BFP negatively predicted the total MRBQ score, while openness in BFP and sensation seeking positively predicted the total MRBQ score. In addition, the Poisson regression analysis suggested that all kinds of self-reported traffic violations could be positively predicted by the total MRBQ score. Path analysis suggested the fully mediating role of sensation seeking. In conclusion, the Chinese version of the MRBQ is useful for future studies and the sensation seeking plays a mediating role between the Big Five personality and MRBQ.Keywords: Safety of motorcyclistsmotorcycle rider behavior questionnairebig five personalitysensation seekingmediation model Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)Consent to participateInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.Data availability statementPlease email the corresponding author for raw data and materials.Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 32071064, 32071066, 32271132, 31771225, 71971073.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?","authors":"Zhuling Liu, Janet Z. Yang","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2270605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2270605","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractApplying the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model, this study explores the antecedents to information seeking and information avoidance about a relatively novel risk – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. Based on an experimental survey, we found that current knowledge, informational subjective norms, and risk perception are positively related to information seeking and information avoidance. Perceived personal control is positively related to information avoidance, but not related to information seeking. Fear is positively related to information seeking, but sadness is not related to either seeking or avoidance. Lastly, information seeking and information avoidance are associated with preventive behaviors related to PFAS contamination in the opposite direction.Keywords: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)information seekinginformation avoidancepreventive behaviors Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 All collinearity diagnostics were satisfactory in the regression models.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135779029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Waste-to-energy risk perception typology: health, politics and environmental impacts","authors":"Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Aiora Zabala, Daniel Groten, Laura Vozmediano, César San Juan, Jesús Ibarluzea","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2259402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2259402","url":null,"abstract":"Where strategies to reduce and recycle urban solid waste are insufficient, waste incineration is proposed as second-best management. Waste-to-energy facilities often raise remarkable public controversy, which the Not-In-My-Backyard effect does not explain sufficiently. Heterogeneous concerns lead to diverse risk perception profiles that standard psychometric scales cannot uncover. We explore this diversity of profiles by analyzing risk perceptions about a recently built waste-to-energy facility in Gipuzkoa (Spain), a case underlined by a decades-long public debate about waste management alternatives. Using Q, a semi-qualitative method, we identify risk perceptions within a diverse sample of fifty participants, including residents at different distances to the facility. We identify three main types of risk perception based on the relative importance respondents gave to 26 possible perceived risks of the facility. We define risk perception types according to the concerns that respondents with similar views emphasized most: human health, politics and institutions, and local social-ecological impacts. Whereas human-health and social-ecological concerns could be partially addressed with information—including timely and accessible reporting of effluent monitoring—and improved safety, building institutional trust to mitigate the concerns in the second risk perception type requires longer-term dynamics. Understanding heterogeneous risk profiles as done in this study can support adequate communication strategies and help policymakers prioritize governance areas to improve. Our results contribute to understanding social-environmental risk perceptions associated with controversial facilities. Using an approach that is new in this domain, these results add nuanced understanding that complements the quantitative profiling prevalent in the literature on risk perceptions and about waste-to-energy plants.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"14 2-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136115974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S","authors":"Adam Mayer, Ellison Carter","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2264314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2264314","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMultiple municipalities in the U.S. have banned natural gas hook-ups in new home construction. Several state governments have pre-empted those bans. Yet little is known about public perceptions of natural gas appliances in the home. We used survey data to evaluate risk perceptions associated with natural gas appliances and investigate potential demographic and ideological effects on risk perceptions. We find little political polarization or “white male” effects, but those who are dissatisfied with indoor air quality and concerned about climate change have heightened risk perceptions. Overall, natural gas risk perceptions are low. However, as of late 2022, the health implications of natural gas use in the home and potential mitigation policy have entered public discourse, implying that these risks may become more salient and politically charged. We conclude by discussing implications for indoor environments and policy.Keywords: natural gasindoor airrisk perception AcknowledgementWe acknowledge the city of Fort Collins, the Bloomberg Foundation Mayors Challenge, and the JPB Foundation Harvard Environmental Health Fellowship for providing funding for this research.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge","authors":"Harishankar Vasudevanallur Subramanian, Casey Canfield, Daniel B. Shank, Matthew Kinnison","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2259406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2259406","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision support is increasing in high-stakes contexts, such as healthcare, defense, and finance. Uncertainty information may help users better leverage AI predictions, especially when combined with their domain knowledge. We conducted a human-subject experiment with an online sample to examine the effects of presenting uncertainty information with AI recommendations. The experimental stimuli and task, which included identifying plant and animal images, are from an existing image recognition deep learning model, a popular approach to AI. The uncertainty information was predicted probabilities for whether each label was the true label. This information was presented numerically and visually. In the study, we tested the effect of AI recommendations in a within-subject comparison and uncertainty information in a between-subject comparison. The results suggest that AI recommendations increased both participants’ accuracy and confidence. Further, providing uncertainty information significantly increased accuracy but not confidence, suggesting that it may be effective for reducing overconfidence. In this task, participants tended to have higher domain knowledge for animals than plants based on a self-reported measure of domain knowledge. Participants with more domain knowledge were appropriately less confident when uncertainty information was provided. This suggests that people use AI and uncertainty information differently, such as an expert versus second opinion, depending on their level of domain knowledge. These results suggest that if presented appropriately, uncertainty information can potentially decrease overconfidence that is induced by using AI recommendations.Keywords: Overconfidenceartificial intelligenceuncertaintyhuman-AI teamsrisk communication AcknowledgmentsWe thank Cihan Dagli, Krista Lentine, Mark Schnitzler, and Henry Randall for their insights on the design of AI decision support systems.Disclosure statementThe authors report that there are no competing interests to declare.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by a National Science Foundation Award #2026324.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 risk perception measures: factoring and prediction of behavioral intentions and policy support","authors":"Branden B. Johnson, Byungdoo Kim","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2264301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2264301","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAlthough early concepts of risk perception measures distinguished cognitive from affective items, until recently multi-dimensional taxonomies were absent from risk perception studies, and even more from tests of their association with behavior or policy support. Six longitudinal panel surveys on U.S. COVID-19 views (n = 2004 February 2020, ending April 2021) allowed testing of these relationships among ≤ 10 risk perception items measured in each wave. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed consistent distinctions between personal (conditioning perceived risk on taking further or no further protective action), collective (U.S., global), affective (concern, dread), and severity (estimates of eventual total U.S. infections and deaths) measures, while affect (good-bad feelings) and duration (how long people expect the outbreak to last) did not fit with their assumed affective and severity (respectively) parallels. Collective and affective/affect risk perceptions most strongly predicted both behavioral intentions and policy support for mask wearing, avoidance of large public gatherings, and vaccination, controlling for personal risk perception (which might be partly reflected in the affective/affect effects) and other measures. These findings underline the importance of multi-dimensionality (e.g. not just asking about personal risk perceptions) in designing risk perception research, even when trying to explain personal protective actions.Keywords: behavioral intentionsCOVID-19policy supportRisk perceptiontaxonomy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 A corollary might be that the global risk perception measure also belongs in this cluster, particularly for duration, which does impose a geographical limit on the area where the pandemic “ends.” A separate analysis (unreported here) showed results similar to those for this fifth model.2 Backup exploratory factor analyses for Waves 2-6 identified six factors out of the 10 items: collective, severity (infection, deaths), personal, affect, duration, and dread. Concern loaded on both collective and personal factors (> .49 and > .41, respectively). The personal connection might be prompted by the measure’s reference to “where you live”; its association with collective measures is unclear. Models clustering personal, collective, and concern measures, including affect and duration as single-item factors, had poor fit (e.g. Wave 2: chi-square/df = 26.849; RMSEA = .127 [.118, .135]; CFI = .928; AIC = 42,991.443).Additional informationFundingThe work contributing to this article was funded by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2022216.","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136098452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI","authors":"Rebekka Schwesig, Irina Brich, Jürgen Buder, Markus Huff, Nadia Said","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2023.2249927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2249927","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractSurveys worldwide show that the public perceives artificial intelligence (AI) as a double-edged sword: A risk and an opportunity. However, how this ambiguous perception of AI is related to people’s willingness to use AI-based applications has yet to be investigated. To this end, two online experiments were conducted, including two samples, N = 246 and N = 495 (quota-sample, representative for age and gender). As hypothesized, people’s risk-opportunity perception of AI applications correlated positively with the probability of using AI. Exploratory analyses indicated that people’s willingness to use AI significantly depended on the context of AI use (medicine vs. transport vs. media vs. psychology). This research expands existing behavioral research by investigating ambiguous and not solely risk-taking behavior for different AI application contexts. Study results motivate the investigation of causal-effect relations and underline the need to understand risk and opportunity perception stability across different contexts of AI use.Keywords: Risk perceptionopportunity perceptionartificial intelligencebehaviorconfidence Ethical approvalAPA ethical standards were followed in the conduct of both studies reported in this article and informed consent was collected from the participants at the beginning of the study. Both studies were approved by the ethics committee of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen.Authors’ contributionsNS, IB, JB, and MH developed the research idea. NS administered the whole project and developed the study concepts. Both, RS and NS developed the methodology of the studies and analyzed the data. RS was responsible for data collection and data visualization. RS and NS wrote the original draft. All authors were responsible for reviewing and editing the original draft. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementData of both studies are freely accessible under http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20589597 (Schwesig and Said 2021, dataset). The analysis code (R) that produces all results and figures of this article are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20589597. Before data collection, both experimental studies were preregistered: https://aspredicted.org/CVC_CRQ (study 1) and https://aspredicted.org/SR3_8Q3 (study 2).Notes1 Note, that we preregistered that people’s AI knowledge works as a moderator on the association of risk and opportunity perception and behavior towards AI as hypothesis 2 for the second study.2 Note, that for study 2 there was a significant main effect of knowledge when we did not control for age, gender, and education, and entering knowledge as main effect only: Χ2Study2(2) = 4.36, p = .037, OR =7.42, 95% CI [1.12, 49.37].3 Note, that for study 2 there was a significant main effect of confidence when we did not control for age, gender, and ed","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136210552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}