Translation of "Risikokompetenz" in English

Yet, opinions and risk competence are not necessarily compatible.

We're talking about risk awareness that children can only gain through new challenges.

With regard to health issues, risk competence furthers the routine use of different information sources and the assessment of their contents.

Parts of this article on the topic “Enhancing risk competence” have been published in similar or identical form, for instance in: Mühlhauser I, Albrecht M, Steckelberg A. Evidenzbasierte Gesundheitsinformation.

This was shown in a representative study by the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, recently published in the journal PLoS ONE.

To help you weigh the benefits and risks of a PSA test for the early detection of prostate cancer, we compiled the facts and an overview of the most important advantages and disadvantages in collaboration with the Harding Center for Risk Literacy.

Hence, the idea is to reactivate the movement memory and to improve the quality of everyday movements through targeted muscle building, to monitor ourselves carefully and to be aware of any sign of progress in order to feel psychologically strengthened and thus muster up the courage to perform specific movements and thus regain the risk expertise we seem to have lost.

Traditional tests, which tend to determine general cognitive capacities, like intelligence or attention control, provide little information about a person’s risk competency.

Wolfgang Gaissmaier and Gerd Gigerenzer from the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin present new findings on this topic in the journal Psychological Science.

To help you weigh the benefits and risks of a mammogram, we give the facts here, in collaboration with the Harding Center for Risk Literacy.

The success of Financial Services is built on a unique combination of risk competence, technological expertise and reliable financial resources.

Climbing is a basic activity enjoyed by children that trains their active and passive musculoskeletal system and their sense of coordination in very complex ways and has a positive influence on factors such as the ability to assess risk, self-protection skills and self-awareness.

A two-year cooperation agreement with the goal of visualising the results of health risk assessment in a generally understandable manner has been in force between the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development since August 2017.

This way, the risk competence of patients becomes a focus of medical debate and of reflecting on the possibilities and limitation of medicine.

Michael Wolffsohn concentrates on the social perspective of risk competence and – deduced from general historical empiricism – addresses the question of the willingness of today’s ‘post heroic’ society to take risks [6].

This article is part of an extensive multipart publication on the topic ‘Enhancing risk competence’ which is being compiled by the interdisciplinary work group of the same name.

Two out of ten have – against their better judgement – even used insecure, public Wi-Fi connections for banking transactions," reports Gerd Gigerenzer, Professor and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy.

The psychologist and risk researcher who is also the director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin, which was newly established in 2008, has been honoured for his skills in communicating key issues such as the art of decision making and dealing with risks and uncertainties to the public.

To help you weigh the benefits and risks of a colonoscopy, we give the facts here, in collaboration with the Harding Center for Risk Literacy.

Risk competence is the key word and the key issue of this multipart publication viewed from different perspectives.

This representative survey was conducted under the scientific direction of Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Because of the complexity of the matter, enhancing the risk competence of laypersons will initially have to be restricted to outlining and propagating the problem of possible misinterpretations and their causes.

In this situation, the Committee of Research into Natural Medicines (Komitee Forschung Naturmedizin – KFN) decided to ask an interdisciplinary working group what could be done to increase the risk competence of interested lay people in this respect.

Risk competence presupposes that a person is capable to adequately identify and assess a risk as well as to subsequently deal with the risk in a rational manner.

This article starts with a few comments on the identification and assessment of toxicological risk to show why so many public debates lack the necessary risk competence.

Thus, enhancing the risk competence of laypersons will have to be initially restricted to increasing the awareness of existing problems.