The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication

Hyunyi Cho (PhD, Michigan State University) is a professor of communication at Ohio State University Her program of research examines the effects of communication on judgments and actions relevant to environmental risk and health risk and the role of messages and the media in social change and behavior change processes. Torsten Reimer (PhD, Free University of Berlin) is an associate professor of communication and psychology at Purdue University. His research focuses on the role of communication in decision making, with the overarching goal of exploring how communication principles facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload. Katherine A. McComas (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how the processes of risk communication influence people's attitudes and behaviors, including how the perceived fairness of scientific authorities and risk managers influences individuals' concern about and acceptance of risk-generating activities.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Explicating Communication in Risk Communication - Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine A. McComas Part I: Foundations of Risk Communication Section 1: Risk Perceptions of Individuals Chapter 1: Risk Perception - Nicolai Bodemer and Wolfgang Gaissmaier Chapter 2: The Challenge of the Description-Experience Gap to the Communication of Risks - Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey Chapter 3: The Feeling of Risk: Implications for Risk Perception and Communication - Stephan Dickert, Daniel Vastfjall, Robert Mauro, and Paul Slovic Section 2: Risk as Social Construction Chapter 4: Social Construction of Risk - Adam Burgess Chapter 5: The Role of News Media in the Social Amplification of Risk - Andrew R. Binder, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique Brossard Chapter 6: Rhetoric of Risk - Robin E. Jensen Part II: Components of Risk Communication Section 3: Models of Risk Communication Chapter 7: Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model - Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. Griffin Chapter 8: The Societal Risk Reduction Motivation Model - Hyunyi Cho and Kai Kuang Section 4: Audiences of Risk Communication Chapter 9: The Role of Numeracy in Risk Communication - Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Valerie F. Reyna, Jonathan C. Corbin, Caisa E. Royer, and Rebecca B. Weldon Chapter 10: Edgework and Risk Communication - Stephen Lyng, Thomas Workman, and G. H. Morris Section 5: Risk Communication Messages Chapter 11: Numeric Communication of Risk - Torsten Reimer, Christina Jones, and Christine Skubisz Chapter 12: Narrative Communication of Risk: Toward Balancing Accuracy and Acceptance - Hyunyi Cho and L. Brooke Friley Chapter 13: Visual Messaging and Risk Communication - Andrew J. King Section 6: Risk Communication and the Media Chapter 14: Media Portrayal of Risk: The Social Production of News - Susanna Priest Chapter 15: Framing, the Media, and Risk Communication in Policy Debates - Matthew C. Nisbet Chapter 16: Social Media and Risk Communication - Stephen A. Rains, Steven R. Brunner, and Kyle Oman Part III: Contexts of Risk Communication Section 7: Interpersonal Contexts of Risk Communication Chapter 17: Risk Communication in Provider-Patient Interactions - Carma L. Bylund, Erin Maloney, and Emily B. Peterson Chapter 18: Informed Consent - Janet Yang Section 8: Organizational Contexts of Risk Communication Chapter 19: Risk Communication in Groups - Tillman Russell and Torsten Reimer Chapter 20: Crisis Communication - Timothy L. Sellnow Section 9: Risk Communication in the Public Sphere Chapter 21: Social Movements and Risk Communication - Hilary Schaffer Boudet and Shannon Elizabeth Bell Chapter 22: Public Engagement in Risk-Related Decision Making - John C. Besley Glossary Author Index Subject Index About the Editors About the Contributors