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Risk and Cognition

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Editors:
  1. Jean-Marc Mercantini

    1. Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille Cedex, France

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  2. Colette Faucher

    1. Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille Cedex, France

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  • Presents the influence of risk on the cognitive processes of humans
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 80)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jean-Marc Mercantini
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Role of Risk Perception and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Regulating Genetically Modified Food

    • Tony E. Wohlers
    Pages 21-59

  4. The Importance of Risk Communication as an Integral Part of Risk Management in the Republic of Serbia

    • Vesela Radovic, Jean-Marc Mercantini
    Pages 61-88

  5. Metaphors and Risk Cognition in the Discourse on Food-Borne Diseases

    • Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska
    Pages 89-105

  6. User-Centred Design as a Risk Management Tool

    • Damien J. Williams, Martin Groen
    Pages 107-127

  7. Analysis of the User Behaviour When Interacting with Systems During Critical Situations

    • Yuska P. C. Aguiar, Maria de Fátima Q. Vieira, Edith Galy-Marie, Charles Santoni
    Pages 129-154

  8. Hydraulic Dam Safety Assessment with the Timed Observations Theory

    • Marc Le Goc, Ismail Fakhfakh, Corinne Curt, Lucile Torres
    Pages 155-196

  9. Building a Domain Ontology to Design a Decision Support Software to Plan Fight Actions Against Marine Pollutions

    • Jean-Marc Mercantini
    Pages 197-227

  10. The Operators’ System of Instruments: A Risk Management Tool

    • Grégory Munoz, Christine Vidal-Gomel, Gaëtan Bourmaud
    Pages 229-247
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About this book

This book presents recent research using cognitive science to apprehend risk situations and elaborate new organizations, new systems and new methodological tools in response. The book demonstrates the reasons, advantages and implications of the association of the concepts of cognition and risk. It is shown that this association has strong consequences on how to apprehend critical situations that emerge within various activity domains, and how to elaborate responses to these critical situations.. The following topics are covered by the book:

·     Influence of the culture in risk management,

·     Influence of the risk communication in risk management,

·     User-centred design to improve risk situation management,

·     Designing new tools to assist risk situation management,

·     Risk prevention in industrial activities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille Cedex, France

    Jean-Marc Mercantini, Colette Faucher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk and Cognition

  • Editors: Jean-Marc Mercantini, Colette Faucher

  • Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45704-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45703-0Published: 20 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50921-0Published: 06 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45704-7Published: 07 January 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4394

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology

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