The taxonomy of risky activities and technologies. Revisiting the 1978 psychological dimensions of perceptions of technological risks

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dc.abstract.enThe objective of this study is to replicate the original study by Fischhoff et al. (1978) and its replication by Fox-Glassman and Weber (2016) and to examine whether risk perceptions for the previously studied activities and technologies have changed over the past 40 years, especially when activities/technologies related to contemporary concerns are included. To achieve this goal, the list of activities/technologies has been modified. To facilitate the analysis of individual data, all participants were asked to rate the benefits and risks of 24 activities. The within-participant approach was also used to achieve the second objective of our study: to analyze the relationship between perceived benefits and risks. In summary, the design of this study differed from previous studies in the following ways: (1) 9 activities/technologies were added related to contemporary concerns such as global warming and fake news on the Internet; (2) all participants rated both benefits and risks; (3) data were collected online (as in the 2016 study); (4) the study was conducted by Prolific with a sample size large enough to detect medium-size effects (n=382). The two-factor structure proposed by Fischhoff et.al. (1978) – Unknown Risk and Dread Risk - was confirmed on aggregated data for the new set of hazards, which included novel hazards. At the level of individual data, modest support for this structure was observed and a very strong inverse relationship between perceived benefits and risks was observed.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorSokołowska-Pohorille, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorRey, Zofia
dc.date.access2025-07-17
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-17T06:07:32Z
dc.date.available2025-07-17T06:07:32Z
dc.date.created2025-01-21
dc.date.issued2025
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dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/risa.17718
dc.identifier.eissn1539-6924
dc.identifier.issn0272-4332
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1612
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.17718
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
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dc.subject.enpsychometric paradigm
dc.subject.entaxonomy of risky activities/technologies
dc.subject.enthe inverse relation between perceived benefits and risks
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dc.titleThe taxonomy of risky activities and technologies. Revisiting the 1978 psychological dimensions of perceptions of technological risks
dc.title.journalRisk Analysis
dc.typeJournalArticle
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