Out of the frying pan into the fire: Behavioral reactions to terrorist attacks
Gigerenzer examines how Americans behaved after 11 September 2001 as a test of dread risk, the idea that rare events killing many people at once cause harm beyond the direct losses. He reports that air travel fell, that interstate highway travel rose for about a year, and that fatal highway crashes exceeded the baseline of previous years in each month of that year. He estimates that many Americans died on the roads while trying to avoid the fate of the flight passengers.
Gigerenzer examines how Americans behaved after 11 September 2001 as a test of dread risk, the idea that rare events killing many people at once cause harm beyond the direct losses. He reports that air travel fell, that interstate highway travel rose for about a year, and that fatal highway crashes exceeded the baseline of previous years in each month of that year. He estimates that many Americans died on the roads while trying to avoid the fate of the flight passengers.
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Gigerenzer, G. (2006). Out of the frying pan into the fire: Behavioral reactions to terrorist attacks. Risk Analysis, 26(2), 347-351. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00753.x