For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of ...

In Part One of this pair of posts, I offered the bad news that the human system of risk perception, which has done such a fabulous job of figuring out the relatively simple and obvious risks that ...

(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.