Journal of Risk Research

1998 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue 2, 2025

Psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity? pp. 127-148

Magda Osman

Risk and the regulatory challenges of smart consumer products pp. 149-153

Sarah C Jenkins and Peter Ayton

Commentary on ‘psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity?’ by Magda Osman pp. 154-160

Amanda J. Heath

A note on psychological harm as a policy instrument pp. 161-164

Marcel Zeelenberg and Christoph Kogler

The Pinocchio effect: AI and the risk of diminished human-self perceptions of agencyi pp. 165-168

Phanish Puranam

‘I need to be convinced that I need to become smart’: older adults views on consumer products with internet connectivity pp. 169-176

James Nicholson, Rhian Skye Lukins, Lynne Coventry, David Buil-Gil, Stefanie Kuenzel, Ruth Blackwell, Sameh Zakhary and Daniel Tilley

Smart products 2.0: redefining user risks with multimodal generative AI pp. 177-183

Stefan Raff-Heinen, Sebastian Brenk and Daniel Henneke

Between doubt and deference: trust and harm in the risk society pp. 184-189

Colin Strong and Tamara Ansons

Psychological harm: implications for the scientific risk analysis and policy communities pp. 190-195

Magda Osman

Volume 28, issue 1, 2025

From climate facts to climate risks. How the IPCC treats risk and uncertainty pp. 1-16

Rolf Lidskog

Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience pp. 17-31

Rusi Jaspal and Glynis M. Breakwell

International perspectives on the meaning of engagement in biotechnology risk assessment: the case of gene drive pp. 32-46

Sarah Hartley, Aleksandra Stelmach, Adam Kokotovich and Robert D. J. Smith

Assessing public opinion about controversial risks: the effects of allowing an escape hatch on internal consistency and validity pp. 47-58

Brandon R. McFadden, Jayson L. Lusk, Caroline May and Emily Schlichtig

How social media amplifies HPV risk: applying the influence of presumed media influence model to the risk amplification framework pp. 59-77

Yuxin Li, Ruofei Gao, Tianyu Li and Nainan Wen

Risk policy tools for high-risk industrial sites in Normandy (France) and Piedmont (Italy): more hazards-focused than vulnerabilities-focused pp. 78-104

Scarlett Tannous, David Javier Castro Rodriguez, Myriam Merad and Micaela Demichela

Engaging youth in the management of radioactive waste: perceptions, intentions and expectations pp. 105-123

Robbe Geysmans, Catrinel Turcanu and Sigrid Griet Eeckhout

Climate change and safety in high-risk industries pp. 124-126

Muhammad Sabrin and Solehatun Munawaroh

Volume 27, issue 12, 2024

Investigating the psychological impact of communicating epistemic uncertainty in personalized and generic risk estimates: an experimental study pp. 1461-1475

Ruben D. Vromans, Lisanne M. A. van Goor and Steffen C. Pauws

Robotics uncharted: When hazardous-duty robots met the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011–2015) pp. 1476-1490

Yeon-Jung Ji

Charting water sanitation concerns within vulnerable communities and international contexts on X pp. 1491-1506

Rebecca K. Ivic-Britt, Courtney D. Boman, Amy Ritchart and Matthew S. VanDyke

Zelensky’s most notable war instrument: the use of ‘reels’ on Instagram pp. 1507-1523

Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo, Esteban Galán-Cubillo and Lindsey Drylie-Carey

Fake news and risk management: a systematic literature review pp. 1524-1563

João Varela da Costa, André Fernandes and Miguel Mira da Silva

Exploring the antecedents of mobile social media subscribers’ unfollowing intention during natural disasters pp. 1564-1588

Houcai Wang, Zhenya Tang, Xiaoliang Long and Li Xiong

Connecting risk, management and organisational goals: integrating risk with organisations’ systems to enhance performance and competitive advantage pp. 1589-1604

Emma Soane

Risk communication about antimicrobial resistance: a content analysis of metaphor use in global public discourse pp. 1605-1622

Eva M. Krockow, Meghann Jones, Carolyn Tarrant, Marc Mendelson and Stephen J. Flusberg

Volume 27, issue 11, 2024

A risk science perspective on some fundamental issues in climate change research pp. 1311-1323

Terje Aven, Ingrid Glette-Iversen and Konstantina Karatzoudi

A longitudinal process from media to climate change knowledge: a multigroup comparison of cognitive mediation model based on risk perception pp. 1324-1340

Hongjie Tang, Lunrui Fu, Liang Chen and Jingyuan Jolie Shi

Examining the effectiveness and economic benefits of home fire safety visits pp. 1341-1357

Sara Waring, John Fielding and Mark Thomas

Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？ pp. 1358-1377

Xiaozhou Liu, Shuang Ling, Jinlong Li and Ni Jie

Unveiling nature’s fury: Natech disasters for business – a continuous monitoring & reporting framework pp. 1378-1399

Maksym Lazirko and Alexander Gates

An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan pp. 1400-1423

Chi Yung Lam and Ana Maria Cruz

Stronger together? Redefining social cohesion role in building disaster-resilient communities pp. 1424-1441

Saeideh Sobhaninia, Stephen Buckman and Cecilio Ortiz-Garcia

Community safety through mindfulness: a study on Chinese Grid Workers’ risk reporting behavior pp. 1442-1460

Yuzhao Xie

Volume 27, issue 10, 2024

Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication pp. 1163-1179

Gabriella Sandstig and Mats Eriksson

Discourse dynamics and mass media’s influence on social media narratives: Twitter analysis of the Great East Japan earthquake’s 10th anniversary pp. 1180-1212

K. Yamada

Factors influencing the adoption of pre-commitment devices for online gambling pp. 1213-1230

Elizabeth Stratton, Gahvin Park, Teejay Santos and Sally Gainsbury

Factors influencing risk perceptions of genetically modified seafood: evidence from a specialist population pp. 1231-1247

J. Stuart Carlton, Haley A. Hartenstine and Amy Shambach

Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model pp. 1248-1272

Stephanie Moser, Norman Kearney, Fabian Michel, Karsten Valerius and Karina Liechti

Exploring disaster preparedness: a scoping review of adult and continuing education approaches in international civil protection research pp. 1273-1289

Sophie Lacher

The relationship between risk perception and risk management: a systematic literature review pp. 1290-1307

Ali Ramadhan Bin-Husayn, Maizatulakma Abdullah and Gunnar Rimmel

Disaster management and risk reduction: multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches in the Indian context pp. 1308-1310

Viona Dika Rikumahu, Maria Dolorosa Bhebhe, I Komang Arianta and Theresia Silvana Samba Djati

Volume 27, issue 9, 2024

20 years of studies of risk and intersectionality: a bibliometric overview pp. 1041-1055

Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Susanna Öhman

The debut, travels and future of intersectionality in HIV prevention and treatment interventions pp. 1056-1069

Shari L. Dworkin

Thoughts about intersectionality and risk. Interviews with key scholars pp. 1070-1082

Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson, Lisa Bowleg, Dean Curran, Kelly Hannah Moffat, Claudia Mitchell, Lori Peek, Ignacio Rubio C. and Jens O. Zinn

The risk of seeing suffering and reproducing inequality pp. 1083-1094

Joana Mostafa

Urban gardening as a risk-reduction strategy – an intersectional analysis of top-down gardening initiatives pp. 1095-1105

Emelie Larsson and Katarina Giritli Nygren

Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening? pp. 1106-1118

Elin Montelius

‘We live with the floods’ – Intersectional Risk Theory in the analysis of household’s flood risk in Monterrey, Mexico pp. 1119-1132

Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

‘It’s really embarrassing […] to ask for help:’ navigating invisible and intersecting inequities in barriers to getting vaccinated pp. 1133-1148

Terra A. Manca, Laura Aylsworth, S. Michelle Driedger and Shannon E. MacDonald

Terrorism-related worry in Sweden: the roles of gender and foreign background pp. 1149-1162

Saman Rashid

Volume 27, issue 8, 2024

Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview pp. 857-900

Li Guan, José M. Merigó, Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Jamie K. Wardman

Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison pp. 901-931

Shan Jin, Gaodi Yang, Johny Hilaire, Mercy Ojo, Sophie Tindale, Francisco Areal, Glyn Jones and Lynn J. Frewer

Survey instructions bias perceptions of environmental health risks pp. 932-950

Shane Timmons, Alexandros Papadopoulos and Pete Lunn

Drivers of Chinese public attitudes towards agri-food applications based on synthetic biology: the results of qualitative exploratory research pp. 951-968

Shan Jin, Beth Clark, Zinan Liu and Lynn J. Frewer

Procedural fairness and safety in the acceptance of nuclear waste disposal in Germany: an empirical study pp. 969-985

Roman Seidl and Cord Drögemüller

Microplastics in food and drink: perceptions of the risks, challenges, and solutions among individuals in the ‘farm-to-fork’ food chain pp. 986-1009

Leonie Fian, Lena M. Schmidlechner, Ulrike Felt, Thilo Hofmann, Mathew P. White and Sabine Pahl

Dynamics of COVID-19 risk perception and predictors in South Korea: a two-year longitudinal study from the pandemic’s beginning (2020–2021) pp. 1010-1027

Minjung Lee, Seongoh Park, Sujin Seo, Mi Jin Kim, Seoyeon Kim, Haemin Yong, Kwan-Young Bak and Myoungsoon You

Defining and assessing risk analysis quality: insights from applications of the SRA risk analysis quality test pp. 1028-1040

John Lathrop, Irem Dikmen, Emma Soane and Terje Aven

Volume 27, issue 7, 2024

The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks pp. 713-734

Arnd Wiedemann, Christiane Bouten, Patrick Hertrampf, Volker Stein and Nicolas Mues

Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct pp. 735-769

Olga Bogachek, Miles Gietzmann and Francesco Grossetti

Modelling social risk amplification, harmful products, and product recall as the basis of a risk assessment procedure pp. 770-788

Yun Liu, Jerry Busby and Bhakti Stephan Onggo

Understanding the role of hope in climate change risk perception: a cross-sectional study pp. 789-805

Greta Castellini, Harriet Pinel, Marta Acampora, Luigi Lucini, Serena Barello and Cinzia Castiglioni

Community preparedness for natural hazards in two Chilean coastal cities pp. 806-826

Javiera V. Castañeda, Paula B. Repetto, Nicolás C. Bronfman and Pamela C. Cisternas

English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries pp. 827-839

Jiankun Gong, Amira Firdaus, Yating Yu and Iffat Ali Aksar

Longitudinal evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States: analysis of the US Census Household Pulse survey pp. 840-852

Christopher L. Cummings, Andrew S. Jin, Benjamin D. Trump, Elizaveta Pinigina, Maia Adley, Holly Jarman and Igor Linkov

Communicating science in times of crisis: communication and catastrophic events: strategic risk and crisis management pp. 853-855

Dian Retno Aryani and Riska Ariyanti

Volume 27, issue 5-6, 2024

Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help pp. 625-636

Frederic Bouder and Ragnar Lofstedt

Energy transitioning: communicating risk to decision-makers pp. 637-642

Magda Osman

Risk communication, uncertainty and the Dutch energy transition pp. 643-652

Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder

Commentary: risk, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition? pp. 653-657

Joakim Zander

Energy transition and risk analysis: a commentary pp. 658-663

Michael Faure

Reflection on ‘risk analysis and uncertainty: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition’ by Frederic Bouder and Ragnar Lofstedt pp. 664-666

Jan Dirk Jansen and Rien Herber

Plea for an inclusive approach to risk pp. 667-671

Barend van Engelenburg and Theodor Kockelkoren

Beyond the singular and linear risk approach pp. 672-675

Rob Smal and Jan van Tol

Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter? pp. 676-683

Magda Osman

Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder pp. 684-687

Stephanie Hurst

The many faces of uncertainty: a comment to Lofstedt and Bouder pp. 688-697

Ortwin Renn

The ever-continuing underestimation of the general public pp. 698-699

Ira Helsloot

Uncertainty, risk and the Dutch energy transition. A commentary pp. 700-704

Tom Jansen, Liesbeth Claassen and Christine Boomsma

Seismic hazard and risk analysis in The Netherlands for deep subsurface activities in practice pp. 705-708

K. van Thienen-Visser

Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy pp. 709-712

Peter Ayton

Volume 27, issue 4, 2024

The relationships between citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity and their health risk perception pp. 481-499

V. Tortosa-Edo and M. Á. López-Navarro

The role of social capital in managing risks: a bibliometric analysis and literature review pp. 500-523

Huijie Li, Hongyan Yi, Ortwin Renn and Jie Li

Securing public spaces: public willingness to sacrifice convenience and privacy for security at three U.S. public venues pp. 524-540

Katie Byrd, Kevin Kapadia, Adam Rose and Richard John

Risk identification in Japanese consumer product injury data throughout an ontology-based knowledge base pp. 541-561

Xiaodong Feng, Kun Zhang, Fang Jiang and Yoshiki Mikami

Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention pp. 562-580

Tanja Perko and David Hevey

Changing risk-taking: the effects of tasks and incentives on the variability of risk-taking pp. 581-596

Emma Soane and Lisa Aufegger

Promoting voluntary risk detection behaviour: an intervention study based on trending social norms combined with emotional appeals pp. 597-612

Geertje Schuitema and Teresa Hooks

Perspectives on future directions of risk-informed education: lessons from Japan and Türkiye pp. 613-624

Ayse Yildiz and Rajib Shaw

Volume 27, issue 3, 2024

A risk science perspective on the COVID-19 risk handling pp. 337-355

Terje Aven

Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic pp. 356-371

Sramana Majumdar and Maanya Tewatia

Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program pp. 372-388

Jun Li, Ruoheng Liu and Yi-Hui Christine Huang

Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments pp. 389-403

Linn Rabe, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen, Rolf Lidskog and Mats Eriksson

Employee perspectives on risk management in a construction company pp. 404-422

Önder Ökmen, Martijn Leijten, Theodora Stratton, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt and Hans Bakker

COVID-19 and perceived risk: examining mortality salience and political decision-making during a pandemic pp. 423-437

Lindsey Harvell-Bowman, Patrick F. Merle, Peter Montwill, Gabriel Gilmore, Aya Nassif and Alice Klein

How personal experiences shaped risk judgments during COVID-19 pp. 438-457

Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Gert Wagner and Ralph Hertwig

How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review pp. 458-480

Ines Spielvogel, Kevin Koban and Jörg Matthes

Volume 27, issue 2, 2024

Assessing climate change scenarios in the Amazon Basin: a risk governance model pp. 167-184

Nírvia Ravena, Norbert Fenzl, Rômulo Magalhães de Souza, Voyner Ravena Cañete, Roberto Célio Limão de Oliveira and Cleyton Alves Candeira Pimentel

The fish scales of justice: the influence of perceived justice on social license to operate for aquaculture development pp. 185-218

Laura N. Rickard, Mary Beth Deline and Nathan Smith

Before amplification: the role of experts in the dynamics of the social attenuation and amplification of risk pp. 219-237

Lisbet Fjaeran, Kenneth Pettersen Gould and Rob Goble

Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022) pp. 238-253

Shruti Acharya, Thomas Aechtner, Sunil Venaik and Sanjay Dhir

Do knowledge, trust in source content, and magnitude of information influence COVID-19 risk perceptions? Comparing Ghanaian and US respondents pp. 254-273

Esi E. Thompson

The pro-environmental travel behaviour intention in the post-pandemic era: the role of risk communication, risk perception and environmental concerns pp. 274-294

Jiale Zhang, Farzana Quoquab and Jihad Mohammad

Rationalization, enchantment, and subjectivation – lessons for risk communication from a New Phenomenology of everyday reasoning pp. 295-312

Jens O. Zinn and Manuel Schulz

Aligning redundancy and flexibility for supply chain resilience: a literature synthesis pp. 313-335

Zhaojun Yang, Mengdi Wu, Jun Sun and Yali Zhang

Volume 27, issue 1, 2024

E-privacy concerns: a facet theoretical approach pp. 1-20

Gisela Böhm, Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Vanessa Ayres-Pereira and Ingvar Tjøstheim

Community flood resilience assessment of Saadi neighborhood, Shiraz, Iran pp. 21-45

Mousa Pazhuhan and Melika Amirzadeh

PRisk-MM: a public sector risk management maturity model for Brazilian public organisations pp. 46-62

A. L. F. De Lorena and A. P. C. S. Costa

How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices? pp. 63-84

Yolanda C. Lin, Asa B. Stone, Gareth Byatt and Lindsey Rotche

Improving workplace safety through mindful organizing: participative safety self-efficacy as a mediational link between collective mindfulness and employees’ safety citizenship pp. 85-107

Matteo Curcuruto, Michelle Renecle, Francisco Gracia, James I. Morgan and Ines Tomas

Sliding scales for assessing and communicating human and ecological risks and complexities for restoration, remediation crises, and decisions pp. 108-123

Joanna Burger

Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages pp. 124-137

Hye-Jin Paek and Thomas Hove

Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards pp. 138-165

Francisca N. Santana, Natalie Herbert and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi