The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication

Hyunyi Cho (PhD, Michigan State University) is a professor of communication at Ohio State University Her program of research examines the effects of communication on judgments and actions relevant to environmental risk and health risk and the role of messages and the media in social change and behavior change processes. Torsten Reimer (PhD, Free University of Berlin) is an associate professor of communication and psychology at Purdue University. His research focuses on the role of communication in decision making, with the overarching goal of exploring how communication principles facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload. Katherine A. McComas (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how the processes of risk communication influence people’s attitudes and behaviors, including how the perceived fairness of scientific authorities and risk managers influences individuals’ concern about and acceptance of risk-generating activities.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Explicating Communication in Risk Communication - Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine A. McComasPart I: Foundations of Risk CommunicationSection 1: Risk Perceptions of IndividualsChapter 1: Risk Perception - Nicolai Bodemer and Wolfgang GaissmaierChapter 2: The Challenge of the Description-Experience Gap to the Communication of Risks - Ralph Hertwig and Renato FreyChapter 3: The Feeling of Risk: Implications for Risk Perception and Communication - Stephan Dickert, Daniel Vastfjall, Robert Mauro, and Paul SlovicSection 2: Risk as Social ConstructionChapter 4: Social Construction of Risk - Adam BurgessChapter 5: The Role of News Media in the Social Amplification of Risk - Andrew R. Binder, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique BrossardChapter 6: Rhetoric of Risk - Robin E. JensenPart II: Components of Risk CommunicationSection 3: Models of Risk CommunicationChapter 7: Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model - Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. GriffinChapter 8: The Societal Risk Reduction Motivation Model - Hyunyi Cho and Kai KuangSection 4: Audiences of Risk CommunicationChapter 9: The Role of Numeracy in Risk Communication - Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Valerie F. Reyna, Jonathan C. Corbin, Caisa E. Royer, and Rebecca B. WeldonChapter 10: Edgework and Risk Communication - Stephen Lyng, Thomas Workman, and G. H. MorrisSection 5: Risk Communication MessagesChapter 11: Numeric Communication of Risk - Torsten Reimer, Christina Jones, and Christine SkubiszChapter 12: Narrative Communication of Risk: Toward Balancing Accuracy and Acceptance - Hyunyi Cho and L. Brooke FrileyChapter 13: Visual Messaging and Risk Communication - Andrew J. KingSection 6: Risk Communication and the MediaChapter 14: Media Portrayal of Risk: The Social Production of News - Susanna PriestChapter 15: Framing, the Media, and Risk Communication in Policy Debates - Matthew C. NisbetChapter 16: Social Media and Risk Communication - Stephen A. Rains, Steven R. Brunner, and Kyle OmanPart III: Contexts of Risk CommunicationSection 7: Interpersonal Contexts of Risk CommunicationChapter 17: Risk Communication in Provider-Patient Interactions - Carma L. Bylund, Erin Maloney, and Emily B. PetersonChapter 18: Informed Consent - Janet YangSection 8: Organizational Contexts of Risk CommunicationChapter 19: Risk Communication in Groups - Tillman Russell and Torsten ReimerChapter 20: Crisis Communication - Timothy L. SellnowSection 9: Risk Communication in the Public SphereChapter 21: Social Movements and Risk Communication - Hilary Schaffer Boudet and Shannon Elizabeth BellChapter 22: Public Engagement in Risk-Related Decision Making - John C. BesleyGlossaryAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

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