Cultural Cognition of Nanotechnology (and a Variety of Other) Risks
Monday, February 23, 2009
11:00AM-12:30PM
1605 Elings Hall
The cultural cognition of risk refers to the tendency of
individuals to conform their perceptions of the risks of putatively
dangerous activities to their cultural evaluations of those activities.
I will describe the theory behind cultural cognition and the methods
researchers affiliated with the Cultural Cognition Project have used to
test it. Findings relating to perceptions of nanotechnology risks will be
prominently featured.