The Key Role of Experiential Uncertainty when Dealing with Risks: Its Relationships with Demand for Regulation and Institutional Trust.

摘要: The results of a survey and an experiment show that experiential uncertainty-people's experience uncertainty in risk contexts-plays moderating role individuals' risk-related demand for government regulation trust risk-managing institutions. First, descriptions risks were presented to respondents (N = 1,017) their reactions questions about uncertainty, perception, measured, as well levels risk-specific knowledge. When was high, perceptions had positive relationship with risk; no such showed under low uncertainty. Conversely, when people little having more knowledge the topic involved associated weaker risk. For experiencing this between did not emerge. Second, 120), openness communication manipulated investigate effects on trust. In condition, open versus nonopen Q-fever-a zoonosis-led higher agency, but control condition. Altogether, research suggests only relatively risk, provision may preclude them from demanding action. Also, persons are stronger regulation, they affected by forming institutional