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Seeking And Processing Information About Impersonal Risk, Lee Ann Kahlor, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert Griffin, Kurt Neuwirth
Seeking And Processing Information About Impersonal Risk, Lee Ann Kahlor, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert Griffin, Kurt Neuwirth
Robert Griffin
Attempts to model risk response tend to focus on risks that pose a direct personal threat. This study examined the applicability of one risk response model to impersonal risks—risks that threaten something other than the self, in this case, the environment. This study utilized a section of the Griffin et al. risk-information seeking and processing model, which depicts relationships between informational subjective norms and information seeking and processing as being mediated by perceptions of information insufficiency. The results indicate that while those relationships do hold for impersonal risk, informational subjective norms (perceived social pressure to be informed) may play an …
Protection Motivation And Risk Communication, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert Griffin
Protection Motivation And Risk Communication, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert Griffin
Robert Griffin
The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of protection motivation theory (PMT) in the context of mass media reports about a hazard. Content elements of a hazard's severity, likelihood of occurring, and the effectiveness of preventive actions were systematically varied in a news story about a fabricated risk: exposure to fluorescent lighting lowering academic performance. Results of this experiment (N = 206) suggest that providing information about the severity of a hazard's consequences produces greater information seeking. In addition, information about levels of risk, severity, and efficacy combined jointly to produce greater rates of willingness to take …
After The Flood: Anger, Attribution, And The Seeking Of Information, Robert Griffin, Zheng Yang, Ellen Ter Huurne, Francesca Boerner, Sherry Ortiz, Sharon Dunwoody
After The Flood: Anger, Attribution, And The Seeking Of Information, Robert Griffin, Zheng Yang, Ellen Ter Huurne, Francesca Boerner, Sherry Ortiz, Sharon Dunwoody
Robert Griffin
In an effort to understand what motivates people to attend to information about flood risks, this study applies the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model to explore how local residents responded to damaging river flooding in the Milwaukee area. The results indicate that anger at managing agencies was associated with the desire for information and active information seeking and processing, as well as with greater risk judgment of harm from future flooding, greater sense of personal efficacy, lower institutional trust, and causal attributions for flood losses as being due to poor government management.