Risk+and+Human+Judgment

How do you classify a person who skydives, yet won't stand up to his/her boss? Is he/she a risk-taker? Understanding why we take some risks and yet avoid others is at the heart of risk management.

=Risk and Human Judgment Resources=


 * 1) Researchers at the University of Michigan have published a paper titled [|Towards the development of an evolutionary valid domain-specific risk-taking scale] - an unwieldy title better explained in an article titled [|Not all risk is created equal] by the University of Michigan News Service.
 * 2) Security guru [|Bruce Schneier's] has published an article titled [|Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk].
 * 3) [|Don Norman] has published an essay titled [|Being Analog].