Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-160) and index.
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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.
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From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to war, the mass media bring into our lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to it? Using a social psychological framework, this book explores the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor.