About this Research Topic
Risk perception is an important mechanism underlying the processes of risk-taking, decision making, and maladaptive behaviors.
Many theoretical viewpoints have addressed risk perception, including risk homeostasis theory and zero-risk theory, which has amassed research on the conscious and unconscious processes.
These processes range from cognitive processing of risks and benefits to psychophysiological correlates underlying such perceptions.
Some examples in current research have searched for variables that could explain the link between risk perception and risky behaviors and, what moderators could exacerbate or buffer these.
The long-term goal of this line of work is to identify novel treatment targets that could reduce maladaptive risk-taking.
This Research Topic aims to improve the knowledge of both psychological and contextual variables that affect risk perception. The analysis of the relationship between risk perception and risky behavior will be addressed too, with a special emphasis on mediators and/or moderators, which could influence this relationship. Moreover, these variables should be explored in different contexts, such as driving, substance abuse, sexual behavior, sport practicing, working environment, and many others.
The current Research Topic seeks to include research from a wide range of sources, including preclinical and clinical models, correlational and experimental work, and psychophysiological, neurological, psychological, and sociological domains.
Some of the specific topics could address (but not limited to) the following ones:
• Identifying new strategies to assess risk perception
• Analyzing the effect of different situational (contextual) or dispositional (personality, cognition, emotion, social behavior) variables in risk perception
• Analyzing the specificity or the stability of risk perception across different situations
• Analyzing the role of risk perception in addictions both with and without substance
• Developing of interventions to improve the ability of risk perception at different ages
• Analyzing the effectiveness of psychological treatments in clinical or preclinical samples in risk perception and/or risky behavior improvement
Many theoretical viewpoints have addressed risk perception, including risk homeostasis theory and zero-risk theory, which has amassed research on the conscious and unconscious processes.
These processes range from cognitive processing of risks and benefits to psychophysiological correlates underlying such perceptions.
Some examples in current research have searched for variables that could explain the link between risk perception and risky behaviors and, what moderators could exacerbate or buffer these.
The long-term goal of this line of work is to identify novel treatment targets that could reduce maladaptive risk-taking.
This Research Topic aims to improve the knowledge of both psychological and contextual variables that affect risk perception. The analysis of the relationship between risk perception and risky behavior will be addressed too, with a special emphasis on mediators and/or moderators, which could influence this relationship. Moreover, these variables should be explored in different contexts, such as driving, substance abuse, sexual behavior, sport practicing, working environment, and many others.
The current Research Topic seeks to include research from a wide range of sources, including preclinical and clinical models, correlational and experimental work, and psychophysiological, neurological, psychological, and sociological domains.
Some of the specific topics could address (but not limited to) the following ones:
• Identifying new strategies to assess risk perception
• Analyzing the effect of different situational (contextual) or dispositional (personality, cognition, emotion, social behavior) variables in risk perception
• Analyzing the specificity or the stability of risk perception across different situations
• Analyzing the role of risk perception in addictions both with and without substance
• Developing of interventions to improve the ability of risk perception at different ages
• Analyzing the effectiveness of psychological treatments in clinical or preclinical samples in risk perception and/or risky behavior improvement
Keywords: Cognitive processes; Automatic processes; Psychophysiology; Risky behavior; Gender differences; Neuropsychology; Driving; Working; Sporting; Injury
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