Adolescents' perceived risk and personal experience with natural disasters: an evaluation of cognitive heuristics risk

Risk perception

• personal risk estimation

Endpoint

• evaluation of availability (i.e., memory for incidents) heuristics and simulation (i.e., imagery) heuristics as possible mediators for the relation between personal experience and personal risk estimates for fatal lightning strike

Considered exposure sources

• • lightning
  • also other exposures without EMF
• • electric injuries/electrocution

Investigated group

455 high school students in the USA with and without personal experience of weather disasters (lightning, flood and tornado) took part in the survey in 1987.