Description and objectives

This proposal aims to align objective risk with perceived risk to optimize individual and collective decisions across the different phases of the risk chain, by understanding the variables and cognitive processes underlying the underestimation or overestimation of natural hazards.

In line with this objective, the project seeks, through the design of ad hoc experiments and field data collection, to measure the gap between objectively and stochastically estimated risk and subjectively perceived risk.

The focus of the study is seismic risk, with particular attention to residential buildings, comparing the perceived collapse hazard with the objectively estimated hazard.

The study adopts the perspective of Behavioral Economics.