Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Responses to risks: an introduction
- 2 Human responses to risks: ‘not me’, ‘the other is to blame’
- 3 A study of lay people's responses to a risk: HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
- 4 Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks
- 5 The source of linking risk and ‘the other’: splitting objects into ‘good’ and ‘bad’
- 6 Social representations of risks
- 7 Emotional life: a new frontier for social theory
- 8 Changing social representations of risks
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Responses to risks: an introduction
- 2 Human responses to risks: ‘not me’, ‘the other is to blame’
- 3 A study of lay people's responses to a risk: HIV/AIDS in Britain and South Africa
- 4 Evaluating two social psychological models of the response to risks
- 5 The source of linking risk and ‘the other’: splitting objects into ‘good’ and ‘bad’
- 6 Social representations of risks
- 7 Emotional life: a new frontier for social theory
- 8 Changing social representations of risks
- References
- Index
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- Risk and 'The Other' , pp. 161 - 165Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999