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Peter M. Sandman
Risk Communication Website

 

2016

December 27    New comment
January 6    New column

Three Ways to Manage Controversies

2015

December 6    New comment

Outrage at a company by governments, suppliers, or competitors

December 1    New comment

My never-changing list of outrage components

December 1    New comment

Guilt as a climate change motivator

November 20    New comment

Analyzing wind farm outrage well … and addressing it badly

November 19    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

What’s next, a Senate inquiry into infrasound from trees, waves or air conditioners?

by Simon Chapman

Posted on The Conversation, November 18, 2015

November 8    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

Science vs. fear: the Ebola quarantine debate as a case study that reveals how the public perceives risk

by Anat Gesser-Edelsburg and Yaffa Shir-Raz

Journal of Risk Research, 2015 (published online November 5, 2015)

November 2    New comment

The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal

October 17    New comment

What kind of risk communication is Donald Trump doing – and why don't politicians do outrage management?

October 16    New column

Strategic Safety Communication: The GAAMM Model to Inform People about Serious Risks

August 26    New comment

When is it okay not to warn people about a risk?

August 15    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

The Lion-Hunter and the Dentist-Hunters: Why the Slaying of Cecil the Lion So Outraged the Public

by Peter M. Sandman

August 3, 2015 email in response to a query from Jennifer Bjorhus of the Minneapolis Star Tribune

July 7    New comment

Outrage about Brian Williams’s lies and his sort-of apologies

July 3    New comment

“Stop being so emotional!” – playing the rationality card

June 24    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

A Must-Read Treatment of the CDC’s Campaign of Deception Regarding E-Cigarettes

by Michael Siegel

Posted on “The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary,” June 24, 2015

June 23    New comment

Mismanaging one controversy worsens the next controversy: an example from school district drug policies

June 16    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

CDC, Sandman, and finding an “honest” appraisal of e-cigarettes

by Andrew Holtz

Posted on the HealthNewsReview website, June 12, 2015

June 15    New comment

When public health agencies spread misinformation about vaping, they undermine their important messages about vaccine safety, pandemic preparedness, and everything else

June 11    New comment

Belatedly telling utility customers there was uranium in their drinking water: where regulatory compliance and outrage management intersect

June 4    New comment

Living without trust

May 28    New comment

The over-polarized fight between mainstream medicine and the dissident alternative medicine and anti-vaccination movements

May 27    New column

A Promising Candidate for Most Dangerously Dishonest Public Health News Release of the Year

May 5    New comment

A hazard response to an outrage problem: Pepsi’s decision to abandon aspartame

May 3    New comment

Why I think trust is not central to negotiating a Social License to Operate

April 17    New column

10 Things You Need to Know about Outrage Management and Social Media

March 12    New article

Radical Candor: Making “Clean Coal” More than an Oxymoron  

Public Utilities Fortnightly, March 2015, pp. 16–23

March 8    New comment

Convincing the CEO to give outrage management a try

February 22    New comment

Accommodating hostile stakeholders: dialogue, demonstrate, or disrupt

February 18    New comment

Don’t tell people not to panic. Especially don’t tell them not to panic yet.

January 16    New comment

How to respond to reactance: an op-ed dissing infectious disease experts as “prophets of doom”

January 9    New comment

A fireworks near miss: warning or false alarm?

January 4    New column

Warning, or False Alarm: Why Safety Professionals See Near Misses Differently than Everybody Else

2014

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