Risk, psychophysical numbing and value of individual and community lives: an empirical study
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risk; value of life; value of social whole; psychophysical numbing; folk sociology; entitativity.;All these keywords.
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- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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