@article{ref1,
title="The affect heuristic, mortality salience, and risk: domain-specific effects of a natural disaster on risk-benefit perception",
journal="Scandinavian journal of psychology",
year="2014",
author="Västfjäll, Daniel and Peters, Ellen and Slovic, Paul",
volume="55",
number="6",
pages="527-532",
abstract="We examine how affect and accessible thoughts following a major natural disaster influence everyday risk perception. A survey was conducted in the months following the 2004 south Asian Tsunami in a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 733). Respondents rated their experienced affect as well as the perceived risk and benefits of various everyday decision domains. Affect influenced risk and benefit perception in a way that could be predicted from both the affect-congruency and affect heuristic literatures (increased risk perception and stronger risk-benefit correlations). However, in some decision domains, self-regulation goals primed by the natural disaster predicted risk and benefit ratings. Together, these results show that affect, accessible thoughts and motivational states influence perceptions of risks and benefits.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-5564",
doi="10.1111/sjop.12166",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12166"
}