Science AI Journal
Social Sciences · Research topic

Open research questions in Risk Perception and Management

26 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,190 Risk Perception and Management papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses displayed signs to promote preventive behaviors, such as wearing masks in public, but the effectiveness of this practice largely remains unknown.

    Promoting Mask-Wearing in COVID-19 Brand Communications: Effects of Gain-Loss Frames, Self- or Other-Interest Appeals, and Perceived Risks · 2021 · DOI

  • Among the open questions are the definition of health misinformation (what is health misinformation?), the psychological drivers of susceptibility to health misinformation (why do people believe it?) and effective interventions for reducing the impact of health misinformation (how to counter it?).

    Health misinformation: what it is, why people believe it, how to counter it · 2023 · DOI

  • Prior research on the political effects of the pandemic has mostly focused on identifying a rally around the flag effect, and little is known about other reasons behind the increase in trust after the outbreak of the pandemic.

    Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence · 2021 · DOI

  • American polit ical history does not account for the market ideology renascent in Britain, and in China, and more recently in Russia and Eastern Europe.

    Risk as a Forensic Resource · 2020 · DOI

  • While there is a lack of evidence about the actual impact of these procedures on mitigating risks, they are posing an increasing burden on researchers in terms of time, effort, and financial resources, affecting particularly research in and about Africa.

    The Unintended Consequences of Risk Assessment Regimes: How Risk Adversity at European Universities Is Affecting African Studies · 2019 · DOI

  • Public policy research on transparency has examined the effects of particular disclosure policies, but there is limited research on how the construction of disclosure policies relates to social movements, or how transparency and ignorance are related.

    Disclosure Conflicts · 2018 · DOI

  • To frame an agenda for future research, we explicate the boundaries of risk as it manifests in this issue, using articles herein to show the extent of field coverage and gaps in research that are ripe for future investigations.

    Beyond the Risky Gamble: A Framework for Consumer Research in Real-World Risk · 2017 · DOI

  • The decision whether or not to apply the precautionary principle appears to be poorly defined, with ambiguities inherent in determining what level of uncertainty and significance of hazard justifies invoking it.

    Multi‐Case Review of the Application of the Precautionary Principle in European Union Law and Case Law · 2016 · DOI

  • Conclusion While only a first attempt to map an under-investigated area, our study highlights complexities in how people perceive risk information about licit substances.

    The credibility of risk information about licit substances: An exploratory study of attitudes among Swedish adults · 2015 · DOI

  • The Dutch opponents of euthanasia who wish to state their views in print do so in small bulletins read only by themselves or in little known periodicals.

    Chapter XXIX: The Shaping of Public Opinion · 2012

  • Despite growing interest in the dynamics and influences of activist groups, few studies have examined the specific tactics used by activists to achieve legitimacy and how these actions affect target firms or industries.

    Frames and Filters · 2007 · DOI

  • PURPOSE: We present theoretical perspectives from judgment and decision making, illustrate how they can explain some of the existing empirical findings in the cancer risk literature, and describe additional predictions that have not yet been tested.

    A heuristics approach to understanding cancer risk perception: Contributions from judgment and decision-making research · 2006 · DOI

  • The results regarding the hy- pothesized interaction between the level of fear appeal and the degree of credi- bility of the source were inconclusive.

    Source credibility and response to fear‐arousing communications · 1965 · DOI

Most-cited papers in Risk Perception and Management

Most recent work

Find a gap in your own Risk Perception and Management sub-topic

This page shows what the Risk Perception and Management literature already flags as unresolved. To narrow it to your specific question, run the guided finder — it searches the gap library on demand and checks candidates against 250M+ OpenAlex works.

Open the Research Gap Finder →

Related topics in Social Sciences

Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
832 open questions
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
784 open questions
Online and Blended Learning
745 open questions
Science Education and Pedagogy
597 open questions
Higher Education Research Studies
588 open questions
Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
563 open questions
Intimate Partner and Family Violence
519 open questions
Early Childhood Education and Development
486 open questions
26 open questions have been extracted from the limitations and future-work passages of 1,190 Risk Perception and Management papers in our library. Each one below links back to the study that raised it, so you can read the original claim in context.

Tools for your next paper

Gaps & Literature SearchFind open questions in any field — 120,000+ open gaps mined from our own library.Pre-CheckIs your paper ready? A Tier 1–5 acceptance probability in seconds.Journal FinderA ranked shortlist of target journals from a 17,500-venue index.Duplicate Publication CheckerCheck prior-publication & salami-slicing risk across 8 sources.Citation GeneratorFreeA DOI or title → APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS. No signup.Graphical Abstract MakerFreeTurn your findings into a colorblind-safe graphical abstract.

Compare the category — Honest roundups of the AI research tools, ours listed alongside the alternatives.

Command palette

Jump anywhere, run any action.