After the virtual flood: risk perceptions and flood preparedness after virtual reality risk communication
Many individuals experience problems understanding and preparing for low-probability/high-impact risk, like natural disasters and …
Individual hurricane evacuation intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for risk communication and emergency management policies
The U.S. 2020 hurricane season was extraordinary because of a record number of named storms coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic. This …
Improving flood preparedness using insights from economic experiments
Flooding is one of the most dangerous natural hazards worldwide, causing widespread economic damage in coastal areas, thousands of …
Psychological Science for a Responsible Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is fueled by trust, which allows strangers to cooperate. To share responsibly, one needs to be aware of the various …
All by myself? Testing descriptive social norm-nudges to increase flood preparedness among homeowners
Nudges based on social norms (norm-nudges) can be compelling behavioral interventions compared to traditional interventions such as …
Changing diets - Testing the impact of knowledge and information nudges on sustainable dietary choices
A shift to more sustainable diets is needed to ensure food security and to reduce the pressure on the environment. Yet, many consumers …
Adequately reflecting the severity of tropical cyclones using the new Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale
For decades, meteorologists and governments have been warning communities in coastal areas for an imminent tropical cyclone (TC) using …
Behavioral motivations for self-insurance under different disaster risk insurance schemes
This paper presents a lab-in-the-field experiment with 2111 Dutch homeowners in floodplain areas to examine the impacts of financial …
Insights into flood risk misperceptions of homeowners in the Dutch river delta
Flooding is one of the most significant natural disasters worldwide. Nevertheless, voluntary take-up of individual damage reduction …
Risk reduction in compulsory disaster insurance: Experimental evidence on moral hazard and financial incentives
In a world in which economic losses due to natural disasters are expected to increase, it is important to study risk reduction …
(Not) alone in the world: Cheating in the presence of a virtual observer
We conducted an experiment in a high-immersive virtual reality environment to study the effect of the presence of a virtual observer on …
Goggles in the lab: Economic experiments in immersive virtual environments
This review outlines the potential of virtual reality for creating naturalistic and interactive high-immersive environments in …
