... risky or not. People tend to be intolerant of risks that they perceive as being uncontrollable, having catastrophic potential, having fatal consequences, or bearing an inequitable distribution of risks and benefits." Slovic's study depicts the relationship between the representativeness heuristic and risk assessment with the results of his experiment. He found that that people assess technologies such as nuclear weapons to ... either "good"" or "bad"." A study conducted in 1994 by Slovic and Alhakami using the bipolar scale observed that despite high-risk activities having greater benef...

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... , one of the ways past a menacing babble of incomprehensible tongues and closed frontiers into the possibility of mutual comprehension(60), which alone, would allow the human civilization to reap the benefits of human advancement....

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