Tag: social psychology

  • Book Club: A Paradise Built in Hell

    Welcome to Risk Book Club! Where I read and summarize arguments about risk so you don’t have to. Today we’re reading A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit. The bar summary: We’ve all watched a movie or two where communities fall apart and people behave selfishly after a disaster. To the contrary, Solnit argues…

  • Should you be assessing risk like NASA?

    Should you be assessing risk like NASA?

    There are a variety of metrics we can use to assess the risks and benefits of decisions. Informally, I love a good pro-con list, but for NASA, risk assessment is a matter of life, death, and millions of dollars, so it’s unsurprising that they have a method for rating risk scope and likelihood. Here are…

  • Book Club: Normal Accidents

    Welcome to Risk Book Club! Where I read and summarize arguments about risk so you don’t have to. Today we’re reading Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow (1984).  The bar summary: Most of us live in a world of trying to avoid accidents, but Charles Perrow says industrial society is so complex we might as well…