Understanding how junior athletes perceive injury risks when participating in sport and the environment they play in is an important component of injury prevention. This study investigates how Sri Lankan junior cricketers (n = 365, aged 11-14 years, boys) perceive injury risks associated with playing cricket. The study used a Sri Lankan modification of an Australian junior cricket injury risk p...

In order to form an impression of the traits, views, and competencies election candidates, voters often draw on existing stereotypes about their identities characteristics, such as gender or ethnicity. Meanwhile, although there is a strong stigma associated with disability in our societies, we know very little how perceive candidates disabilities. This study uses survey experiment conjoint desi...

It has been pointed out in the macroeconomics and financial risk literature that risk-sharing by diversification in a financial network may increase the systemic risk. This means roughly that while individual agents in the network, for example banks, perceive their risk of default or insolvency decrease as a result of cooperation, the overall risk, that is, the risk that several agents may defa...

BACKGROUND More than 40 countries have laws prohibiting misleading information from tobacco packages, including the words 'light', 'mild' and 'low-tar'. Little is known about the extent to which other words and package designs prove misleading to consumers. METHODS A mall-intercept study was conducted with adult smokers (n = 312) and non-smokers (n = 291) in Ontario, Canada. Participants view...

The present study has aimed to identify the perceptions of apprentice welders about physical, chemical, biological, and physiological risk factors to which they are exposed; identify types of occupational accidents involving apprentice welders; and report the development of a socioenvironmental education intervention as a tool for risk communication for apprentice welders. A quantitative study ...

Climate change is already taking a toll on human health, a toll that is likely to increase in coming decades. The relationship between risk perceptions and vulnerability to climate change's health threats has received little attention, even though an understanding of the dynamics of adaptation among particularly susceptible populations is becoming increasingly important. We demonstrate that som...