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Dr. Peter M. Sandman

Seminar Handouts Topical Index

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Updated: December 2006
Also available:   Alphabetical Index

Topics

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Activists and Media

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  21   Goals for Dealing with Activist Groups

  22   Guidelines for Dealing with Activist Groups

  24   Helping Reporters Understand a Technical Story

  27   Media Coverage of Risk Controversies: Recommendations for Journalists

  28   Media Coverage of Risk Controversies: Seven Principles

  29   Media Coverage of Risk Controversies: The Four  “Biases” of Risk Journalism

  30   Media Coverage of Risk Controversies: Why Do Journalists Focus on Outrage?

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Explaining Risk Data

arrow to top   13   Dealing with Uncertainty

  18   Four Reasons Why People Learn Risk Information — or Anything Else

  25   Is This a Good Risk Comparison?

  33   Orienting the Audience

  41   Quantitative Risk Communication: Explaining the Data

  50   Simplifying Graphics

  51   Simplifying Technical Presentations

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Fundamentals of Risk Communication

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  17   Four Kinds of Risk Communication

  23   Hazard Versus Outrage: A “Thought Experiment” and a Real Experiment

  46   Risk = Hazard + Outrage: A New Answer to an Old Problem

  47   Risk = Hazard  + Outrage: Summary

  48   The Seesaw of Risk Communication

  49   Seven Conclusions about Hazard and Outrage

  58   Twelve Principal Outrage Components

  60   What Makes an Interaction Responsive?

  61   What Makes a Risk Memorable?

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Outrage Management (Low Hazard, High Outrage)

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    3   Assessing Stakeholder Motives: The Three Main Reasons for Making Demands

    4   Assessing Stakeholder Motives: Three Additional Reasons for Making Demands

  10   Cognitive Barriers to Risk Communication

  19   The Four Stages of Risk Communication

  20   The Four Traditional Stages of a Risk Controversy

  31   The Nature of Outrage

  36   Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Risk Communication

  39   Psychological Barriers to Risk Communication — and a Coping Strategy

  42   Reducing Outrage: Six Principal Strategies

  43   Reducing Outrage: Some Additional Strategies

  44   The Relationship between Hazard and Outrage

  52   Six Postures When Confronting Critics

  59   Two Tech Specs for Outrage Management

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Public Involvement

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    7   The Audiences of Risk Communication

  26   The Ladder of Citizen Participation

  38   A Planning Process for Public Involvement

  40   The “Publics” in Public Involvement

  56   Third Party Audits

  63   Working with Community Advisory Panels

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Safety and Health Communication (High Hazard, Low Outrage)

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    5   Attitude Dimensions of Safety: 16 Reasons Why Employees Sometimes Ignore Safety Procedures

    6   Attitude Dimensions of Safety: 24 Reasons Why Employers Sometimes Ignore Safety Procedures

  34   The Other Side of Risk Communication: Alerting People to Serious Hazards

  38a  Precaution Advocacy Messaging Strategy: The GAAMM Model

  59a  “Watch Out!”: Precaution Advocacy Fundamentals

  62   When You Think People Are Under-Reacting to a Risk: A Nine-Step Checklist

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Terrorism and Crisis Communication (High Hazard, High Outrage)

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    2   Anthrax, Bioterrorism, and Risk Communication: Guidelines for Action

    8   Beyond Panic Prevention: Addressing Emotion in Emergency Communication

  11   Crisis Communication: Six “Easy” Strategies

  12   Crisis Communication: Six “Harder” Strategies

  12a Crisis Communication I: How Bad Is It? How Sure Are You?

  12b Crisis Communication II: Coping with the Emotional Side of the Crisis

  12c Crisis Communication III: Involving the Public

  12d Crisis Communication IV: Errors, Misimpressions, and Half-Truths

  14   Dilemmas in Emergency Communication Policy

  32   Obvious or Suspected, Here or Elsewhere, Now or Then: Paradigms of Emergency Events

  35   Outrage Management in Mid-Crisis

  53   Smallpox Vaccination: Some Risk Communication Linchpins

  54   Talking about Worst Case Scenarios: Eight Principal Strategies

  55   Talking about Worst Case Scenarios: Twenty Additional Suggestions

  57   The Three Kinds of Crisis Communication and Their Relationship to Risk Communication

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Other/Miscellaneous

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    1   Addressing  “Environmental Justice Communities”: A Nine-Step Response

    9   Biotechnology: A Risk Communication Perspective

  15   Emerging Communication Responsibilities of Epidemiologists

  16   Employee Outrage vs. Community Outrage

  37   Peter M. Sandman: Brief Biography

  45   Responsible CareŽ in the Community: Been There. Done That. What's Next?

  64   Y2K: A Risk Communication Perspective

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En Español

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  12a   Comunicación de crisis I: ¿Hasta qué punto es mala la situación? ¿Cuán seguro está usted?

  12b   Comunicación de crisis II: Hacer frente al aspecto emocional de la crisis

  12c   Comunicación de crisis III: Implicar al público

  12d   Comunicación de crisis IV: Errores, impresiones erróneas y verdades a medias

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