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08 Jul 2022 / Uni Research How Society Thinks About Risk From pandemics to nuclear energy – the world is full of risks. Psychologists at the University of Basel have developed a new method of determining how risk is perceived within a society.. 08 Jan 2016 / Uni Research, Press releases Risk Taking Across Life Span: The Effects of Hardship With increasing age, the propensity to take physical, social, legal or financial risks decreases. Researchers from the University of Basel and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin were able to show how factors such as poverty and income equality play a role.