Social Structure, Psychology, and the Estimation of Risk

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

1975 • 23,866 citations

The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

1970 • 21,732 citations

The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

1981 • 16,265 citations

The social psychology of organizing

1969 • 11,161 citations

Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

1921 • 9,117 citations

Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.

1980 • 7,533 citations

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

1984 • 5,967 citations

Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies

1985 • 5,258 citations

Subjective probability: A judgment of representativeness

1972 • 4,401 citations

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

1972 • 3,656 citations

Belief in the law of small numbers.

1971 • 3,177 citations

How Institutions Think.

1988 • 2,842 citations

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

1979 • 2,602 citations

Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

1940 • 2,586 citations

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

1972 • 1,970 citations

The Logic and Limits of Trust

1983 • 1,746 citations

Behavioral Decision Theory

1977 • 1,727 citations

The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

1987 • 1,681 citations

Can human irrationality be experimentally demonstrated?

1981 • 1,204 citations

Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation

1987 • 979 citations

Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood

1979 • 971 citations

Disaster insurance protection: Public policy lessons

1978 • 821 citations

The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order.

1983 • 723 citations

On the study of statistical intuitions

1982 • 682 citations

Fear of victimization: Why are women and the elderly more afraid?

1984 • 598 citations

Where the action is

1969 • 566 citations

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry

1984 • 403 citations

To Punish or Persuade: Enforcement of Coal Mine Safety.

1986 • 374 citations

Perceived risk: psychological factors and social implications

1981 • 356 citations

Social Impact Assessment

1986 • 339 citations

Rhetoric in Claims-Making: Constructing the Missing Children Problem

1987 • 293 citations

Employment Hazards: An Investigation of Market Performance.

1980 • 278 citations

Victimization Rates, Exposure to Risk, and Fear of Crime

1984 • 277 citations

Crime and Punishment--Changing Attitudes in America.

1981 • 247 citations

The asymmetric society

1982 • 230 citations

Influence : how and why people agree to things

1985 • 225 citations

Rational Choice: The Contrast Between Economics and Psychology.

1988 • 204 citations

The Case of the Speluncean Explorers

1949 • 182 citations

Reactive Risk and Rational Action

1985 • 177 citations

Making Bureaucracies Think: The Environmental Impact Statement Strategy of Administrative Reform

1984 • 137 citations

Cost benefit analysis and the art of motorcycle maintenance

1977 • 96 citations

Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals: Plural Rationalities in a Single Institution

1986 • 79 citations

Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns.

1990 • 76 citations

The Language of Risk: Conflicting Perspectives on Occupational Health.

1986 • 62 citations

Explaining Choices among Technological Risks

1988 • 58 citations

Illusions and Mirages in Public Policy

1985 • 39 citations

Resources for Social Change: Race in the United States.

1973 • 36 citations

Reckless Homicide? Ford's Pinto Trial

1980 • 26 citations

The Used Car Game: A Sociology of the Bargain.

1974 • 20 citations

The Re-Vision of Rape Law

1987 • 10 citations

Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace

1986 • 3 citations