U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: Comparisons of Risk Attitudes and Perceptions

该奖项支持一个合作研究项目， 决策科学研究所的保罗·斯洛维奇博士 尤金，俄勒冈州和教授Hirotada广濑，系 东京女子基督教大学心理学。 具体 它支持美国和美国之间的初步工作组会议， 和日本研究人员在一个名为“比较 风险态度和认知。“这个项目也是 由NSF决策，风险和 管理科学计划。 这是一个雄心勃勃的项目， 解决一个对国家有重大影响的问题。 虽然 美国和日本是高度工业化国家 各国管理技术风险的方法 是完全不同的。 美国主要依靠 以对抗性为特征的“对抗模式” 利益相关方之间的关系，广泛的公众 参与和广泛使用法律的制度。 的 相比之下，日本的制度是建立在“合作社”的基础上的。 “政府间私人谈判”模式 和工业，强调建立共识。 的 合作研究中的研究人员假设， 这些截然不同的方法反映在 公众对风险的态度和看法， 尤其是风险管理。 研究人员将通过携带 风险态度和风险认知的平行研究 在这两个国家。 他们将利用他们的广泛的前 在分析各种风险成分方面的经验 人口数量。 除了提供信息， 关系到两国未来的互动， 这种比较将增加对国家的基本了解。 风险管理的方式和方法。

This award supports a cooperative research project between Dr. Paul Slovic of the Decision Science Research Institute in Eugene, Oregon and Professor Hirotada Hirose, Department of Psychology, Tokyo Women's Christian University. Specifically it supports an initial working group meeting between the U.S. and Japanese researchers on a project entitled "Comparisons of Risk Attitudes and Perceptions." This project is also supported by a grant from the NSF Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program. It is an ambitious project to address an important issue of national consequence. Although the United States and Japan are highly industrialized countries, their approaches to managing technological risks are quite different. The United States relies primarily on a "confrontational model" characterized by adversarial relationships between interested parties, widespread public participation, and extensive use of the legal system. The Japanese system, in comparison, is based on a "cooperative model" centered upon private negotiations between government and industry with an emphasis on consensus building. The investigators in the cooperative study hypothesize that these contrasting approaches are reflected in major differences in public attitudes and perceptions of risk in general and risk management in particular. The investigators will examine these differences by carrying out parallel studies of risk attitudes and risk perceptions in both countries. They will draw upon their extensive prior experience in analyzing the components of risk in various populations. In addition to providing information that will be relevant to future interactions between the two countries, this comparison will increase basic understanding of national risk-management styles and approaches.