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Why Journalists Should Stop Publishing Studies Conducted With Mice
When it comes to determining what will make humans healthy and disease-free, research involving mice has had remarkably few successes.
On a near-daily basis, the...
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns
The fear appeal literature is examined in a comprehensive synthesis using meta-analytical techniques.
The meta-analysis suggests that strong fear appeals produce high levels of...
Fifteen Years of Fear Arousal: Research on Threat Appeals: 1953 – 1968
Research on threat appeals has yielded conflicting findings concerning the relative effectiveness of high threat versus low threat in persuasion.
Studies reviewed here have investigated...
