The confirmed attendance list for the following event is below. There
are still some places left. If you would like to come, or know someone
who would like to come, and are not on the confirmed attendance list,
please rsvp me.
Date, November 11th 2010, 6pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
Title: "Risk as Feeling: New Perspectives on Risk Perception."
"Modern theories in cognitive psychology and neuroscience indicate that
there are two fundamental ways in which human beings comprehend risk.
Analytic thinking uses algorithms and normative rules, such as the
probability calculus, formal logic, and risk assessment. It is
relatively slow, effortful, and requires conscious control.
Experiential thinking is intuitive, fast, often automatic, and not very
accessible to conscious awareness. Experiential thinking enabled human
beings to survive during their long period of evolution and remains
today the most natural and most common way to respond to risk. It
relies on images and associations, linked by experience to emotion and
affect (a feeling that something is good or bad). It represents risk as
a feeling that tells us whether it's safe to walk down this dark street
or drink this strange-smelling water. Research shows that such feelings
are an important guide to behavior and, like visual perceptions they are
typically fast, accurate, and rational. Yet, also like perceptions, our
feelings systematically fail us in certain important situations. I
shall describe the laboratory experiments that led to the concept of
risk as feelings and illustrate some insights gleaned from this
perspective for behaviors as diverse as cigarette smoking and apathy
toward large scale natural and human caused disasters."
Place: LSE, Room D202; Map:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx
Sponsored by the LSE HEIF Fund.
Confirmed attendees:
Matthew Anderson
Nana Anokye
Marilyn Aviles
Erica Barbosa
Matt Baron
Paul Batchelor
Daniel Bear
Nick Begley
Sara Belton
Gwyn Bevan
Andrea Beyer
Maria Victoria Aviles Blanco
Katherine Bobroske
Jimmy Bork
Luc Bovens
Tammy Boyce
Jennifer Brown
Fay Burton
Mirella Cacace
Raphael Calel
Megan Challis
Katy Cooper
Tessa Crilly
Claudia Dadoyan
Dina Davaki
Simon Dietz
Anna Dixon
Nick Doyle
Patrick Dunleavy
Claudia Ebm
C Emory
Rong Fah
Emily Fan
Barbara Fasolo
Daniel Faundez
Jennifer Faure
Alastair Fischer
Stefan Fischer
Edward Gardiner
Neil Garrett
Chris Gaskell
Ipek Gencsu
Dermot Glynn
John Goodfellow
Kristin de Grouchy
Michael Hallsworth
Camilla Hansen
Egle Harding
Adam Harris
Laura Haynes
Jennifer Helgeson
John Henderson
Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo
Martin Hitzinger
Max Hogg
Plamen Ivanov
Angela Jackson
Eve Jagusiewicz
Michael Johnson
Matt Jones
Caneel Joyce
Marie Juanchich
Michaela Keating
Seb Kodritsch
Tamas Kosa
Petco Kusez
Alison Kuznets
Julian Le Grand
Sander van der Linden
Maria Madrid-Trillo
Anne Marciniak
Tim Marsh
Guy Mayraz
Donna McAleer
Ojas Mehta
Sherry Merkur
Marisa Miraldo
Jo Moriarty
Fabiana Negrin
Jytte Seested Nielsen
Claudia Niza
Marcelo Navarini
Cliodhna O'Connor
Adam Oliver
Chris Olivola
Koh Ong
Mary O'Riordan
Diana Owusu-Kyereko
Craig Peters
Larry Phillips
Nick Pidgeon
Jose Luis Pinto Prades
Sarah Polcz
Ruth Puig-Peiro
Anita Punwani
Ramsey Raafat
Ian Randolph
Sarah Jane Reed
Costi Rezlescu
Tom Rivers
Ketevan Rtveladze
Enrique Sanchez
Laura Schang
Claude Schmitt
Marlene Searle
Janet Shapiro
Renu Singh
Miroslav Sirota
Nicola Sloan
Corinna Sorenson
Charitini Stavropoulou
Sheila Stefani
Nicola Stevenson
Olaf Storbeck
Andrei Timoshenko
Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau
Phil Verney
Gaelle Villejoubert
Jane Vosper
Benjamin Williamson
Paul Willman
Jo Wolff
Fiona Wood
Camil Zarychto
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