Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2008
Publication Title
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Volume
27
Issue
2
First page number:
10
Last page number:
12
Abstract
The five papers in this special issue share the perspective that attitudes toward risk are strongly shaped by social context, and that understanding context can help us understand how risk decisions are made, and thereby how to make them better.
Keywords
Risk analysis
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Statistics and Probability
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hassenzahl, D. M.
(2008).
Chronic disease, homeland security, and sailing to where there be dragons.
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 27(2),
10-12.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2008.928989
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Statistics and Probability Commons
Comments
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