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Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception

Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception

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A paper on the "white male effect" that describes how risk perception is shaped by race and gender identities and cultural norms.

Date: 2007

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Authors: C.K. Mertz, Dan Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil Paul Slovic

Organization: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Strategic Approach: Audiences, Framing, Other

Type: General Resource

Author: C.K. Mertz, Dan Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil Paul Slovic

Organization:

Organization: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Strategic Approach: Audiences, Framing, Other

Type: General Resource

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