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Coping with Uncertainty
9 September 2005 2 - 4pm
BA Festival of Science
Trinity College Dublin
The SCARR Network will present a workshop on Coping
with Uncertainty at the British Association Festival of Science
at Trinity College, Dublin on 9 September 2005, (14.00-16.00, INS
Building LT 4)
We all have to deal with risks and uncertainties in the course of our
daily lives, from what happens in our families and our working life to
planning our pensions. Some risks we can handle by weighing up the pros
and cons, but in many cases there is no convincing way to produce a ‘rational’
answer – and these cases often concern our most significant social
and personal relationships. People learn about risk from significant others,
from the media, in their communities and from official agencies. In this
session we present new evidence from a series of recent surveys on how
people seek to manage the risks of everyday life.
Papers include:
Coping with Uncertainty
- Peter
Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent
Responding to Risk: Media Accounts and Public Understandings
- Graham
Murdock, Loughborough University
Risk Perceptions - A Generational Divide?
- Andreas
Cebulla, National Centre for Social Research
Risk and Difference
- David
Abbott, Norah Fry Research Centre
Taking other people's feelings into account when appraising risky situations
- Brian
Parkinson and Gwenda Simmons, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University
of Oxford
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