Trust and Risk Perception: A Critical Review of the Literature.
Affect heuristic
confidence
review
trust
Journal
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
ISSN: 1539-6924
Titre abrégé: Risk Anal
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8109978
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2021
03 2021
Historique:
received:
21
02
2018
revised:
27
01
2019
accepted:
15
04
2019
pubmed:
3
5
2019
medline:
3
5
2019
entrez:
3
5
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Many studies in the field of risk perception and acceptance of hazards include trust as an explanatory variable. Despite this, the importance of trust has often been questioned. The relevant issue is not only whether trust is crucial but also the form of trust that people rely on in a given situation. In this review, I discuss various trust models and the relationship between trust and affect heuristics. I conclude that the importance of trust varies by hazard and respondent group. Most of the studies use surveys that provide limited information about causality. Future research should focus more on experiments that test whether trust is a consequence of people's attitudes or influences their attitudes toward a technology. Furthermore, there is a need for a better understanding about the factors that determine which heuristics people rely on when evaluating hazards.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
480-490Informations de copyright
© 2019 Society for Risk Analysis.
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