UO's Slovic tackles Ebola fears in Washington Post article

UO psychology professor Paul Slovic writes in the Washington Post's online PostEverything section that Ebola hits all the hot buttons when it comes to perceived risk.

"People’s sense of risk has little to do with mathematical probability," he writes in the article.

His article was published under the headline "Yes, our Ebola freakout is irrational. But there’s still a good reason to have the jitters." In recent weeks, Slovic's research on risk and its application to the Ebola crisis has been covered in interviews done on National Public Radio and in The New York Times and Oregonian.