Strategies for Risk Communication Evolution, Evidence, Experience

摘要

This volume presents the proceedings of the symposium entitled Strategies for Risk Communi-cation: Evolution, Evidence, Experience. The symposium was held in Montauk, Long Island, NewYork on May 15-17,2006. It explored practical methods and robust theories of risk communicationinformed by recent research in risk perception, neuroscience, and the evolutionary social sciences.The symposium focused on what experimental, survey, and brain imaging research has uncoveredabout how humans process and perceive uncertainty and risks and what the evolutionary historyof humans suggests about how we understand and respond to risks. The purpose of the symposiumand of this collection of papers is to begin to synthesize the findings from these diverse fields andinform the development of practical strategies for risk communication.