Does anyone know of papers (or books) on the topic of the psychology
of deferred risk?
By this I mean studies of how people perceive, for example, the risks
of actions they take now when it is common knowledge that absolutely
nothing bad will happen for a long time, but then the result will be
possibly fatal. Having unprotected sex with someone who's probably
got AIDS, for example, or maybe engaging in fraudulent business
practices, or taking up smoking. It's a bit like the other side of
deferred benefits, of working hard at school so that you get a good
job a decade later, of which Activity Theorists have given a lot of
attention. I am over the anthropological literature, moral panics and
so on, I am looking for something in CHAT or general psychology.
What do you think?
Andy
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