Mobile Communication in the Public Mind: Insights from Free Associations Related to Mobile Phone Base Stations risk

Risk perception

• risk estimation

Endpoint

• free associations related to mobile phone base stations in terms of affective ratings, contents and differences

Considered exposure sources

• • mobile communications
  • mobile phone base station

Investigated group

In the first study, free associations of experts, laypeople, and base station opponents (21 persons/group) about the concept "base station" were investigated. The second study was conducted with 503 randomly selected persons.