A Quantitative Test of the Cultural Theory of Risk Perceptions: Comparison with the Psychometric Paradigm

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Risk Analysis

• Publication date

  1998-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Engineering, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00376.xPMID 9853396
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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