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Aids education: The boomerang effect

Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1990
React ions to a film abou t AIDS prevent ion are examined a subjec t to wh ich the i n t e r na t i ona l publ ic appea r s in t ense ly res i s t an t . The film was shown to 108 viewers in Montreal, and p r e / p o s t ques t ionna i res were used to gauge its effects.
Jon Baggaley, Louise Glegg, Aaron-Henry Brauer   +2 more
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The boomerang effect

Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '02, 2002
The theory of polyrepresentation [2, 3] provides a theoretical background for how to exploit such features. In summary, the theory hypothesises that overlaps between different cognitive representations of both users’ information needs as well as documents can be exploited for reducing the uncertainties inherent in IR, and thereby improve the ...
Birger Larsen, Peter Ingwersen
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‘Boomerang effect’: the bottleneck of public policy analysis in Turkey

2018
This chapter seeks to explain the poor performance of public policy tools in Turkey through strategic planning and performance auditing utilising the “boomerang effect” concept mainly used in communication studies. For this analysis the study follows the steps of the heuristic public policy cycle model.
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Selective Exposure: The Potential Boomerang Effect

Journal of Communication, 1972
This paper reports a test of selective exposure. Interviews with the audience of a film critical of American involvement in Vietnam revealed that the overwhelming majority shared the film's orientation and that eighty per cent knew about the film before entering the theater. Thus selective exposure occurred.
David L. Paletz, Judith Koon, Elizabeth Whitehead, Richard B. Hagens   +3 more
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The Resilience and Boomerang Effect of Chocolate

2014
In the last 30 years historians have become increasingly interested in understanding how changes in patterns of consumption reproduced themselves as well as to what degree they acted as agents of social change. Enriched by interdisciplinary contributions, the history of consumption constitutes one of the privileged terrains where different ...
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Boomerang Effect of Drug Education Programs

Pediatrics, 1991
In the article by Goldberg et al, I am puzzled and concerned about a finding which appears in the table outlining "Attitudes of All High School Athletes." The trends noted in this table are disturbing—there is a suggestion that students would be more likely to consider usage of anabolic steroids after the educational intervention.
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The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization

2023
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Proattitudinal versus counterattitudinal messages: Message discrepancy, reactance, and the boomerang effect

Communication Monographs, 2021
Xinyan Zhao, Edward L Fink
exaly  

Differential and boomerang spectrums of some power permutations

Cryptography and Communications, 2021
Kangquan Li, Yubo Li, Longjiang Qu
exaly  

Boomerang uniformity of a class of power maps

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 2021
Sartaj Ul Hasan, Mohit Pal, Pantelimon Stănică   +2 more
exaly