For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of far greater media attention than more significant but less spectacular mortality risks.
Risk perception influenced less by media than previously thought: Study retrieved 16 May 2024 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-perception-media-previously-thought.html
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