Article ID: CBB928894561

Testing Links Among Uncertainty, Affect, and Attitude Toward a Health Behavior (February 2018)

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This study examines the conceptual linkages between individuals’ uncertainty judgments and affective reactions (worry and anger) within the context of an environmental health risk. It uses data from a longitudinal study of people’s reactions to the risks of eating contaminated fish from the Great Lakes that employed the risk information seeking and processing model and incorporates a set of variables from the full model, which includes preventive behavior. Findings support the model and indicate that worry and anger strongly influenced uncertainty judgments but worry and anger influenced attitudes toward fish avoidance and information insufficiency differently.

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Authors & Contributors
Berezow, Alex B.
Campbell, Hank
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Petty, Adrienne
Daniel J. Decker
Melissa Tully
Journals
Science Communication
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Publishers
PublicAffairs
The College of William and Mary
Concepts
Communication of scientific ideas
Public understanding of science
Public understanding of medicine
Medicine
Science and society
Environment
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Austria
Germany
Switzerland
Netherlands
Nigeria
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