As global environmental change accelerates, humans are increasingly exposed to a spectrum of climate-related stressors such as extreme weather events, ...

I’m willing to bet that you’re never late for a truly important meeting — especially not when the meeting is a matter of life and death — because, in those cases, people do everything in their power ...

I have always been interested in how people make decisions under uncertainty—especially decisions about safety. But it was not until I began studying housing conditions and disaster risk that I ...

"Fear is a very powerful weapon. Fear doesn't give you the freedom to decide... Don't act of out fear." —The Sea Inside (2004) Decision-Making: Cognitive and Emotional How do we make decisions? Many ...

From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 18, 2024) - A white paper was released in February 2024 titled “Enhancing Risk-Informed Decision Making in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Policy Review and Recommendations, ...

Communication of uncertainty is an important component of the broader practice of human health risk communication. As discussed by Stirling (2010), conveying the uncertainty in the science related to ...

Can you spot this bias in action? We’ve all heard someone say the glass is “half full" or “half empty.” The same amount of water is in both glasses but your reaction may be different depending on how ...