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Study of Social Risk Assessment on Major Projects Based on Risk Perception Abstract(: In recent years, major projects are becoming risk sources to social instability, which have triggered many mass incidents. High-risk society changes evaluation criteria and agenda setting of project decision-making. By introducing risk society theory into social impact assessment on major projects, a model of “cognition-behavior” is established to modify the assessment criteria and discipline, and also a new framework to assess and precaution potential social stability risks related to the major projects. As a case study, more than 1000 residents from Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station are surveyed. It shows that there is a significant correlation between psychological reactions and social stability risk behaviors. Along with the risk perception degree enhancement, persons are more likely to have a strong risk appetite and risk behaviors. Including risk perception of the surrounding residents in the framework of social risk assessment explores a path to prevention of psychological crisis of anxiety triggered by major projects, which helps to establish a more scientific and reasonable risk assessment model. Keywords: Social Risk Assessment, Major Projects, Risk Perception, Psychometrics Introduction China has entered a period of rapid development of economic society, and one of the most obvious features is that various types of major projects have mushroomed all over the country. This kind of project has some characteristics such as various construction contents, large construction area, high cost, and is always followed with high risk in the long life cycle[1]. Not only economic and environment risks, major projects always face social risks[2]. In recent years ecological assessment and economic evaluation have seen considerable progress; however social impact assessment (SIA) is still the bottleneck, which largely affected the comprehensive measure of the effectiveness of the pro