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Studying the psychology of risk since 1959. Currently researching failure to intervene in genocide and other mass threats to humans and the environment.
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Decisions on major projects often ignore cultural and social losses

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By Robin Gregory, Terre Satterfield, Paul Slovic
| Policy Options Politiques Magazine Verified
In public debates over pipelines, mines, dams and other major infrastructure projects, governments often make assurances that any communities or other parties adversely affected by the development will be “compensated” for losses. The language sounds fair and rational: Impacts to lands and people that remain after mitigation will be measured, damages calculated, and payments provided to those who experience negative impacts.
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Why Congress and senior officials must deny Trump a ‘nuclear escape’ in Iran

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By Paul Slovic, Rose McDermott
| nuclear-news.net
Why Congress and senior officials must deny Trump a ‘nuclear escape’ in Iran Bulletin, By Paul Slovic, Rose McDermott | Analysis | May 26, 2026 The most frightening possibility in the ongoing Iran war is not simply that the United States could deepen its involvement. It is that a US president whose own decisions helped create the crisis could come to see nuclear escalation as the clearest path out of humiliation, stalemate, and existential loss. That risk should not be dismissed as fanciful.
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Risk as Feeling: New Perspectives on Risk Perception

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By Paul Slovic
| LSE Connect Verified
Thursday 11 November 2010 | 1 hour 14 minutes 6 seconds Dr. Slovic will describe the laboratory experiments that led to the concept of risk as feelings and illustrate some insights gleaned from this perspective for behaviours as diverse as cigarette smoking and apathy toward large scale natural and human caused disasters. Dr. Slovic studies judgment and decision processes with an emphasis on decision making under conditions of risk.
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