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On the semantic representation of risk
What are the defining features of lay people’s semantic representation of risk? We contribute to mapping the semantics of risk based on word associations to provide insight into both universal and individual differences in the representation of risk. Specifically, we introduce a mini-snowball word a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269897/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35857448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm1883 |
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description | What are the defining features of lay people’s semantic representation of risk? We contribute to mapping the semantics of risk based on word associations to provide insight into both universal and individual differences in the representation of risk. Specifically, we introduce a mini-snowball word association paradigm and use the tools of network and sentiment analysis to characterize the semantics of risk. We find that association-based representations not only corroborate but also extend those extracted from past survey- and text-based approaches. Crucially, we find that the semantics of risk show universal properties and individual and group differences. Most notably, while semantic clusters generalize across languages, their frequency varies systematically across demographic groups, with older and female respondents showing more negative connotations and mentioning more often certain types of activities (e.g., recreational activities) relative to younger adults and males, respectively. Our work has general implications for the measurement of risk-related constructs by suggesting that “risk” can mean different things to different individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-92698972022-07-20 On the semantic representation of risk Wulff, Dirk U. Mata, Rui Sci Adv Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences What are the defining features of lay people’s semantic representation of risk? We contribute to mapping the semantics of risk based on word associations to provide insight into both universal and individual differences in the representation of risk. Specifically, we introduce a mini-snowball word association paradigm and use the tools of network and sentiment analysis to characterize the semantics of risk. We find that association-based representations not only corroborate but also extend those extracted from past survey- and text-based approaches. Crucially, we find that the semantics of risk show universal properties and individual and group differences. Most notably, while semantic clusters generalize across languages, their frequency varies systematically across demographic groups, with older and female respondents showing more negative connotations and mentioning more often certain types of activities (e.g., recreational activities) relative to younger adults and males, respectively. Our work has general implications for the measurement of risk-related constructs by suggesting that “risk” can mean different things to different individuals. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9269897/ /pubmed/35857448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm1883 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Wulff, Dirk U. Mata, Rui On the semantic representation of risk |
title | On the semantic representation of risk |
title_full | On the semantic representation of risk |
title_fullStr | On the semantic representation of risk |
title_full_unstemmed | On the semantic representation of risk |
title_short | On the semantic representation of risk |
title_sort | on the semantic representation of risk |
topic | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269897/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35857448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm1883 |
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