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Avoiding cancer risk information [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2015 Perceived risk for health problems such as cancer is a central construct in many models of health decision making and a target for behavior change interventions. However, some portion of the population actively avoids cancer risk information. The prevalence of, explanations for, and consequences of such avoidance are not well understood.We examined the
Amber S, Emanuel +6 more
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The Onset of Habituation Effects
European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2021 While extraordinary events like pandemics may prompt an increase in information-seeking behaviour, such trends are unlikely to be sustainable. Over time, issue fatigue/overdose is expected to set in. This study employed generalised additive mixed models (
Viorela Dan, Hans-Bernd Brosius
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Health Information Avoidance Behavior of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2019 Along with the convenience of receiving health information and the rise of public health consciousness, seeking health information is regarded as a common phenomenon. However, the public is seldom aware of health information avoidance behavior.
Wen-Han Chuang, Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the relationship between cognitive and affective factors and people's information-seeking and -avoiding behaviours in acute risks with a 1,946-sample online survey conducted in February 2020, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Shuguang Zhao, Yiming Liu
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Journalism and Media, 2022 This paper scrutinizes the phenomenon of issue fatigue and its consequences. Issue fatigue results from overexposure to a news topic that has been on the media’s agenda for an extended period of time.
Christina Schumann
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No Moral Wiggle Room in an Experimental Corruption Game
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent experimental evidence reveals that information is often avoided by decision makers in order to create and exploit a so-called “moral wiggle room,” which reduces the psychological and moral costs associated with selfish behavior.
Loukas Balafoutas +2 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2022 This study investigates the procedures for risk information seeking and avoidance among South Korean female college students in the context of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination by adopting the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM ...
Soo Jung Hong, Yungwook Kim
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Evaluating the moderating effect of in-vehicle warning information on mental workload and collision avoidance performance [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, 2022 Purpose – The presentation of in-vehicle warnings information at risky driving scenarios is aimed to improve the collision avoidance ability of drivers. Existing studies have found that driver’s collision avoidance performance is affected by both warning
Chen Chai +4 more
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Animal protection and information avoidance
, 2023 Social scientists are increasingly interested in information avoidance (IA)—the active decision to refrain from information. However, processing information on animal protection in German livestock systems has not been systematically studied before. We close this gap by conducting a web-based survey in Germany with a focus on abdicating responsibility ...
Richard Völker, Sven Gruener
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INFORMATION AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR REGARDING HOAXES INDICATORS
Jurnal Psikologi Undip, 2020 Hoaxes have become a common phenomenon in Indonesia. The Indonesian Telematics Society Survey shows that even though Indonesian people understand the way in recognizing hoaxes, they Indonesia are not sure of being able to immediately recognize hoaxes ...
Raymond Godwin +2 more
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