Integrating Risk Perception Measures, Antecedents, and Outcomes

Four topics—risk perception measurement; how risk perception shapes outcomes such as behavioral intentions and policy support; and sources of risk perceptions—usually are studied separately, despite obvious mutual implications: e.g., whether and how risk perceptions are affected by, or affect, other variables might depend on how they are measured. This project will put them in a rare longitudinal panel survey design and with standardized hypothesized predictors and outcomes, to maximize the ability to make causal inferences relative to more usual cross-sectional designs, preceded by systematic testing of alternative risk perception measures to draw conclusions about the relative value of alternative types and phrasing.

Investigators

Principal Investigator, ORI
Project Start Date

12/01/2023

Project End Date

06/30/2025

Funding Agency

National Science Foundation

Current Status

Active and recruiting by invitation