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David Ropeik
David P. Ropeik ( ) is an international consultant, author, teacher, and speaker on risk perception and risk communication. He is also creator and director of Improving Media Coverage of Risk, a training program for journalists. He is a regular contributor to Big Think, Psychology Today, Cognoscenti, Medium and the Huffington Post. He has also written articles for other publications, including Nieman Reports. Background He was born in Albany, NY and grew up in Trenton, NJ. David attended Northwestern University where he received a BSJ from the Medill School of Journalism in 1972 and a MSJ the following year. Following graduate school, David began as a radio and television reporter for WTIC in Hartford, CT, which was soon sold to Post-Newsweek and became WFSB-TV. From 1978-2000: he worked at WCVB-TV in Boston as a reporter. David became a specialist in environmental news and was an early member of the Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ). While at WCVB, David won two Alfred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risk Perception
Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. Risk perceptions are different for the real risks since they are affected by a wide range of affective (emotions, feelings, moods, etc.), cognitive (gravity of events, media coverage, risk-mitigating measures, etc.), contextual (framing of risk information, availability of alternative information sources, etc.), and individual (personality traits, previous experience, age, etc.) factors. Several theories have been proposed to explain why different people make different estimates of the dangerousness of risks. Three major families of theory have been developed: psychology approaches (heuristics and cognitive), anthropology/sociology approaches (cultural theory) and interdisciplinary approaches (social amplification of risk framework). Early theories The study of risk perception arose out of the observation that experts and lay people often disagreed about how risky various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |