Citation

Andersson H, Lundborg P. J. Risk Uncertain. 2007; 34(1): 67-84.

Affiliation

Swedish National Road and Transport Research Inst, Dept Transport Economics, SE-10215 Stockholm, Sweden

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11166-006-9004-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Individuals' perception of their own road-traffic and overall mortality risks are examined in this paper. Perceived risk is compared with the objective risk of the respondents' peers, i.e. their own gender and age group, and the results suggest that individuals' risk perception of their own risk is biased. For road-traffic risk we obtain similar results to what have been found previously in the literature, overassessment and underassessment among low- and high-risk groups, respectively. For overall risk we find that all risk groups underestimate their risk. The results also indicate that men's risk bias is larger than women's.

Language: en