Attach_8B_Readings

Selected Readings

Theoretical and empirical justification for pursuing a tripartite model of risk perceptions:

Bechara, A., & Damasio, A. R. (2005). The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision. Games and Economic Behavior, 52, 336-372.

Denes-Raj, V., & Epstein, S. (1994). Conflict between intuitive and rational processing: When people behave against their better judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 819-829.

Dillard, A. J., Ferrer, R. A., Ubel, P. A., & Fagerlin, A. (2012). Risk Perception Measures' Associations With Behavior Intentions, Affect, and Cognition Following Colon Cancer Screening Messages. Health Psychology.

Ferrer, R. A., Hall, K. L., Portnoy, D. B., Ling, B. S., Han, P. K. J., & Klein, W. M. P. (2011). Relationships among health perceptions vary depending on stage of readiness for colorectal cancer screening. Health Psychology, 30(5), 525-535.

Ferrer, R. A., Portnoy, D. B., & Klein, W. M. P. (2013). Higher cancer-related worry and risk perceptions are related to lower exercise and fruit and vegetable consumption: Results from the Health Information National Trends Survey. Journal of Health Communication.

Janssen, E., van Osch, L., Lechner, L., Candel, M., & de Vries, H. (2012). Thinking versus feeling: Differentiating between cognitive and affective components of perceived cancer risk. Psychology & Health, ePub ahead of print.

Janssen, E., van Osch, L., de Vries, H., & Lechner, L. (2011). Measuring risk perceptions of skin cancer: Reliability and validity of different operationalizations. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 92-112.

Janssen, E., Waters, E. A., van Osch, L., Lechner, L., & de Vries, H. (2012). The importance of affectively-laden beliefs about health risks: the case of tobacco use and sun protection. Journal of behavioral medicine, 1-11.

Klein, W. M. P., Zajac, L. E., & Monin, M. M. (2009). Worry as a moderator of the association between risk perceptions and quitting intentions in young adult and adult smokers. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 38, 256-261.

Lipkus, I. M., Klein, W. M. P., Skinner, C. S., & Rimer, B. K. (2005). Breast cancer risk perceptions and breast cancer worry: what predicts what? Journal of Risk research, 8(5), 439-452.

Loewenstein, G. F., Weber, E. U., Hsee, C. K., & Welch, N. (2001). Risk as feelings. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 267-286.

Mills, B.., Reyna, V. F., & Estrada, S. (2008). Explaining contradictory relations between risk

Portnoy, D. B., Ferrer, R. A., Bergman, H. E., & Klein, W. M. (2013). Changing deliberative and affective responses to health risk: A meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, (just-accepted).

Portnoy, D. B., Kaufman, A. R., Klein, W. M., Doyle, T. A., & de Groot, M. (2013). Cognitive and affective perceptions of vulnerability as predictors of exercise intentions among people with type 2 diabetes. Journal of Risk Research, (ahead-of-print), 1-17.

Slovic, P. (1987). Perception of risk. Science, 236, 280-285.

Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2004). Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: Some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality. Risk Analysis, 24, 1-12. 

Weinstein, N. D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K. D., Magnan, R. E., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (2007). Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. Health Psychology, 26, 146-151.

Empirical validation for scales to assess factors that may moderate the association between each type of risk perception and behavioral intentions

Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: implications for affect, relationships, and well-being.Journal of personality and social psychology, 85(2), 348.

Rippetoe, P. A., & Rogers, R. W. (1987). Effects of components of protection-motivation theory on adaptive and maladaptive coping with a health threat.Journal of personality and social psychology, 52(3), 596.

Sinclair, M., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Chattopadhyay, P. (2010). Affective antecedents of intuitive decision making. Journal of Management and Organization, 16(3), 382-398.

Justification for Incentives (and best practices for mTurk)

Buhrmester, M., Kwang, T., & Gosling, S. D. (2011). Amazon's Mechanical Turk a new source of inexpensive, yet high-quality, data?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(1), 3-5.

Goodman, J. K., Cryder, C. E., & Cheema, A. (2013). Data collection in a flat world: The strengths and weaknesses of Mechanical Turk samples. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(3), 213-224.

Mason, W., & Suri, S. (2012). Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Behavior research methods, 44(1), 1-23.

Singer, E. (2002). The use of incentives to reduce nonresponse in household surveys. Survey nonresponse, 163-177.

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