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Harding Center for Risk Literacy
Should I have a flu vaccination or not? Is it safer to travel by car or by plane? Can early-detection screening tests for cancer prolong my life? Questions like these are the research focus of our team of six scientists led by Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Center.
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 What is the media's role in communicating complex global health issues? A discussion forum in the run-up to the 3rd World Health Summit discussed this question.
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 Each year the same old story: Health authorities call for the flu vaccination - and people don't listen. Some call this behaviour reckless, others consider it sensible. German Focus-Online reports about the benefits and risks of the vaccination.
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25 October, 2011
 On October 25, Gerd Gigerenzer was awarded the "Deutschen Psychologie-Preis 2011" (German Psychology Prize 2011) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. This prize honours his outstanding achievements in the fields of decision making and risk research.
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 Within the EFSF, Germany provides more than 250 billion euros in guarantees. Politicians are making decisions about risks that have an impact on the generations to come. German radio station Inforadio rbb asks Gerd Gigerenzer about how we learn to handle risks.
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 How did 9/11 change our way of life? Are we living in a state of permanent crisis? Are there strategies to help us deal with risks? On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 11 September 2001, Gerd Gigerenzer was interviewed by German radio broadcast Radio Eins. You can listen to his answers here.
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 The "Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft" produced this video-talk. Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, talks about the following topic: "Lessons from the financial crisis: Robust systems instead of pseudo-optimization".
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 What's the difference between absolute and relative risks? How wide-spread is statistical illiteracy? And what measures can be taken against it? Listen to the recording of Gerd Gigerenzer's presentation on "Perception of Risks" (60min).
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