The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeRisk Science and MethodsDepartment of Decision, Behaviour and Communication
How people judge risk, and how behavioural science informs warnings and policy
People judge risk by what comes to mind, whom they trust and what those around them do.
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The discipline teaches risk perception and the psychometric paradigm, heuristics and biases in risk judgement, the social amplification of risk, trust and credibility, protective action decision making, behavioural insights in policy, collective behaviour in crises and the ethics of behavioural interventions, read against the Apennine towns where the 2009 and 2016 events tested every one of those. A graduate can predict how a warning will be read, design a message or a choice architecture on the evidence and state the ethical line it must not cross.
This area covers how people perceive, judge and respond to risk, and how behavioural science informs warnings, choices and policies. It is taught in the department of Decision, Behaviour and Communication, Faculty of Risk Science and Methods, through courses still to be authored.
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Not yet taught by a course: Social cohesion, trust and collective behaviour in crises.
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