Rating Threat Mitigators: Faith in Experts, Governments, and Individuals Themselves to Create a Safer World

This research explores public judgments about the threat‐reducing potential of experts, individual behavior, and government spending. The data are responses of a national sample of 1225 to mail surveys that include measures of several dimensions of public judgments about violent crime, automobile ac...

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Air pollution
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Chemical wastes
Global warming
Humans
Perception
Public Opinion
Risk
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Risk-Taking
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