TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk of Own Death and the Death of Others: An Analysis of Road-Traffic and Baseline Mortality Risk
AU - Andersson, H.
AU - Lundborg, N.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Individuals' perception of their own road-traffic and overall mortality risks are examined in this paper. Perceived risk is compared with the objective risk of the respondents' peers, i.e. their own gender and age group, and the results suggest that individuals' risk perception of their own risk is biased. For road-traffic risk we obtain similar results to what have been found previously in the literature, overassessment and underassessment among low- and high-risk groups, respectively. For overall risk we find that all risk groups underestimate their risk. The results also indicate that men's risk bias is larger than women's. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.
AB - Individuals' perception of their own road-traffic and overall mortality risks are examined in this paper. Perceived risk is compared with the objective risk of the respondents' peers, i.e. their own gender and age group, and the results suggest that individuals' risk perception of their own risk is biased. For road-traffic risk we obtain similar results to what have been found previously in the literature, overassessment and underassessment among low- and high-risk groups, respectively. For overall risk we find that all risk groups underestimate their risk. The results also indicate that men's risk bias is larger than women's. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.
U2 - 10.1007/s11166-006-9004-3
DO - 10.1007/s11166-006-9004-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0895-5646
VL - 34
SP - 67
EP - 84
JO - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
JF - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
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