Sonia Savelli

Email:

[email protected]

Awarded COVID Grants:

• RAPID: Coronavirus Risk Communication: How Age and Communication Format Affect Risk Perception and Behaviors

Expected Research Output:

data scientific insights

• Conducting a series of experiments to test numeric, verbal, and graphical representations of COVID-19 risks to determine which format better communicates information to the general public.
• Collecting individual difference measures, such as risk tolerance, age, education and political ideology, to determine whether there are interactions between these variables and representation format that suggest that communication strategies should be tailored to specific subgroups.

Project Keywords:

risk perception risk communication