Perceptions of Risk and the Buffering Hypothesis: The Role of Just World Beliefs and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

@article{Lambert1999PerceptionsOR,
  title={Perceptions of Risk and the Buffering Hypothesis: The Role of Just World Beliefs and Right-Wing Authoritarianism},
  author={Alan Lambert and Thomas Burroughs and Tina Nguyen},
  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},
  year={1999},
  volume={25},
  pages={643 - 656}
}
Although perceptions of risk have been studied extensively by both social and cognitive psychologists, relatively little work has focused on individual differences in these perceptions. Across two studies, the authors examined the relationship of perceived risk to just world beliefs (BJW) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Both studies showed that these two variables have interactive effects on perceived risk across a wide variety of different types of threats (e.g., getting hijacked… 
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