TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The affect heuristic, mortality salience, and risk: domain-specific effects of a natural disaster on risk-benefit perception
JO  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
A1  - Västfjäll, Daniel
A1  - Peters, Ellen
A1  - Slovic, Paul
SP  - 527
EP  - 532
VL  - 55
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-5564
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12166
ID  - ref1
ER  -