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The current documentation serves to make psychometric scales available to a broader international public in order to disseminate the research materials and to stimulate joint crosscultural studies on risk perception and health behaviors.

This line of research started in 1994 with a major field project launched in Berlin, Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), under the title “Berlin Risk Appraisal and Health Motivation Study”(BRAHMS). Work on this project has been published in various German outlets, and also in a few English sources (Renner et al., 2000; Schwarzer & Renner, 2000). A complete annotated documentation of the BRAHMS-materials has been made available in German by Renner, Hahn, & Schwarzer (1996).