Talk:Cultural cognition of risk

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Worldwide Representativeness[edit]

It is true that this entry focuses on work done primarily by researchers in the United States. However, to my knowledge scholars have not used the methods and constructs associated with the "cultural cognition of risk" (CCR) to study risk perceptions of non-US samples. Commentary from outside the US refers to CCR, but in ways perfectly consistent with the entry. Accordingly, I think is is not correct to state that the entry does "not represent a worldwide view of the subject." I think it is correct, however, to call attention to the fact that CCR has not been applied to non-US samples and pose the question of what this implies about the universality of the constructs employed in the theory. This point is in fact explicitly raised, with supporting documentation, in the "criticism" section. If there are additional commentaries that elaborate on this point, it would be very helpful to add them and summarize their content if it seems this would be edifying to readers. Likebirds (talk) 12:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Having attempted unsuccessfully to engage the user who made this revision in discussion of the appropriateness of it, I propose removing the "worldwide view" marker. That is, unless anyone can identify sources that reflect the "worldwide view of the subject" of CCR research supposedly neglected in the entry. Likebirds (talk) 06:13, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]