Rare disaster information can increase risk-taking

Ben R. Newell (), Tim Rakow, Eldad Yechiam and Michael Sambur
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Ben R. Newell: School of Psychology, University of New South Wales
Tim Rakow: University of Essex
Eldad Yechiam: Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Michael Sambur: Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 158-161

Abstract: Experiments show that providing people with information about the prevalence of natural disasters can counterintuitively increase the appeal of disaster-prone regions, suggesting that isolated information is not enough to encourage risk-averse activity.

Date: 2016
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