Table of Contents: Risk and 'the other' /

Main Author:	Joffe, Hélène.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Risk perception. Social psychology. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) Perception du risque. Psychologie sociale. Altérité (Théorie de la connaissance) PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55565

Table of Contents:

Responses to risks: an introduction
Human responses to risks : 'not me', 'the other is to blame'
A study of lay people's responses to a risk : HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks
The source of linking risk and 'the other' : splitting objects into 'good' and 'bad'
Social representations of risks
Emotional life : a new frontier for social theory
Changing social representations of risks.