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Author Joffe, Hélène.

Title Risk and 'the other' / Hélène Joffe.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 165 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-160) and index.
Contents Responses to risks: an introduction -- Human responses to risks : 'not me', 'the other is to blame' -- A study of lay people's responses to a risk : HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa -- Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks -- The source of linking risk and 'the other' : splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad' -- Social representations of risks -- Emotional life : a new frontier for social theory -- Changing social representations of risks.
Summary From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to war, the mass media bring into our lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to it? Using a social psychological framework, this book explores the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor.
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Subject Risk perception.
Risk perception.
Social psychology.
Social psychology.
Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Joffe, Hélène. Risk and 'the other'. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521660092 (DLC) 99013648 (OCoLC)40762596
ISBN 9780511489846 (electronic book)
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