About this title: Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behaviour by the operation of cultural filters. It postulates that behaviour is governed by the probable costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which are perceived through filters formed from ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781857280685ISBN:1857280687
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. Risk and the royal society, patterns of uncertainty, error, chance and culture, measuring risk, mo*n*e*t*izing risk, road safety 1-seat belts, road safety 2-more filtering, the greenhouse effect, risk society. this work aims to bring the multifarious field of risk studies sharply into focus in a readable way for a wide readersh1p throughout the social sciences and beyond. risk compensation postulates that everyone has a risk thermostat and that safety ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781857280685ISBN:1857280687
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 192 pages. (192 pages) this work aims to bring the multifarious field of risk studies sharply into focus in a readable way for a wide readersh1p throughout the social sciences and beyond. (Paperback) read more
Description: Good. 1857280687 Ex-Library book with all the marking and stamps-PAGES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION-I SHIP FAST-light edgewear-Paperback- read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UCL PR
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781857280685ISBN:1857280687
Description: New. Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a risk thermostat and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfo... read more
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