How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits

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This paper, published in 1950, received 1.9k indexed citations. Written by Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, Stephen Read and Barbara Harris Combs covering the research area of Sociology and Political Science and Marketing. It is primarily cited by scholars working on Sociology and Political Science (1.4k citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (247 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (222 citations). Published in Policy Sciences.

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