How do Risk Perceptions Respond to Information? The Case of Radon
基于缅因州家庭对氡风险信息的调查，研究发现个体以修正的贝叶斯学习模型更新风险感知，且采取缓解措施后感知降低，对信息政策设计有参考价值。
A specialized survey of Maine households' responses to information about the risks associate d with radon concentrations in their homes and water supplies was use d to evaluate how they form risk perceptions. The findings support a modified form of a Bayesian learning model to describe how individual s used the information to revise their risk perceptions. Moreover, in dividuals who took some mitigating actions reported lower risk percep tions after that action. The overall results are potentially importan t to the use of information programs as policy instruments for risk r eduction because they indicate that new information can affect risk p erceptions in a systematic way. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.