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Smokers' and non-smokers' estimates of their personal risk of cancer and of the incremental risk attributable to cigarette smoking (1995)
Journal Article
Eiser, R. J., Reicher, S. D., & Podpadec, T. (1995). Smokers' and non-smokers' estimates of their personal risk of cancer and of the incremental risk attributable to cigarette smoking. Addiction Research and Theory, 3(3), 221-229. https://doi.org/10.3109/16066359509005239

Estimates were obtained from 420 members of the public, 117 of whom were smokers, of the risk of an hypothetical target person, described as a 35-year-old man with no previous illness, contracting cancer as a consequence of exposure to combinations o... Read More about Smokers' and non-smokers' estimates of their personal risk of cancer and of the incremental risk attributable to cigarette smoking.

Global changes and local accidents: Consistency in attributions for environmental effects (1995)
Journal Article
Eiser, R. J., Reicher, S. D., & Podpadec, T. (1995). Global changes and local accidents: Consistency in attributions for environmental effects. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 25(17), 1518-1529. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1995.tb02630.x

A questionnaire concerning environmental issues was administered to 462 tourists visiting beaches in southwestern England. One set of items concerned the greenhouse effect, and measured the extent to which global warming was seen as attributable to i... Read More about Global changes and local accidents: Consistency in attributions for environmental effects.

Humanities in primary education (1995)
Book
Kimber, D., Clough, N., Forrest, M., Harnett, P., Menter, I., & Newman, E. (1995). Humanities in primary education. London: David Fulton Publishers

This work asks how primary school children are best helped to understand what is special about being human, in terms of people, place, events, time, beliefs and values. Professional readers are invited to consider their own values against a range of... Read More about Humanities in primary education.