Psychological mechanisms of social amplification of technological risks

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380858
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (2015-2016); Hamamatsu Gakuin University (2013-2014)
• Principal Investigator: OKABE YASUNARI 帯広畜産大学, 畜産学部, 特任准教授 (10413569)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: リスク認知 / 科学技術 / 関連度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a questionnaire survey for undergraduate students and the general public in order to examine the relevance among technologies (e.g., nuclear power generation, Gene manipulation) and the risk perception of each technology. The results showed the positive correlation between the perceptions of each target technology and its theoretically predicted perception of the technology, which was calculated as the sum of perceptions of the other technologies weighted by the relevance to the target technology. The results suggest the perception of technology is not evaluated independently but with that of reference to other related technology.

Free Research Field

社会心理学