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Risk perception in Poland: A comparison with three other countries
Author(s) -
Goszczynska Maryla,
Tyszka Tadeusz,
Slovlc Paul
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of behavioral decision making
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0771
pISSN - 0894-3257
DOI - 10.1002/bdm.3960040305
Subject(s) - risk perception , perception , norwegian , order (exchange) , psychology , social psychology , economic shortage , hazard , actuarial science , economics , finance , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , neuroscience , government (linguistics)
The present study is a cross‐cultural comparison of risk perception. A psychometric approach has been followed in order to examine quantitative risk judgments of different hazards and the ratings of these same hazards on various risk‐characteristic scales. A list of hazards was used that is comparable with other samples (American, Hungarian, Norwegian), but a certain number of hazards of an entirely different kind were added (e.g. social tensions, shortages of consumer goods) because these are important today for Polish society. In spite of the different list of hazards, the basic factor structure of risk perception turned out to be essentially the same as the structure found in other studies. There was considerable agreement in risk perceptions in the Polish and American samples. We also discovered a number of idiosyncratic qualities of risk perception in Poland, generally indicating the importance of the availability heuristic.