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Clash of the Primary Motivations: Motivated Processing of Emotionally Experienced Content in Fear Appeals About Obesity Prevention.
- Source :
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Health Communication . 2018, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p111-121. 11p. 4 Charts, 1 Graph. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study examined individuals' physiological and cognitive responses to different types of emotionally experienced content located in obesity prevention fear appeals. Results suggested that experienced valence impacted individuals' attention and memory as a function of experienced arousal level. Local content that created coactive highly arousing experiences received the most attention, though visual recognition suggested these messages were more difficult to encode. Local content that created negative moderately arousing experiences was best encoded. Global message evaluation data suggest that moderately arousing messages with a change in experienced valence may prove to be most effective, as they ensure attention and good memory while keeping high self-reported interest, and a high level of perceived severity of obesity. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MOTIVATION (Psychology)
*PREVENTION of obesity
*APPEAL to fear (Logical fallacy)
*EMOTIONS
*ATTENTION
*COGNITIVE ability
*MEMORY
*AROUSAL (Physiology)
*PSYCHOLOGY
*OBESITY & psychology
*ANALYSIS of variance
*COGNITION
*FEAR
*GRADUATE students
*HEALTH promotion
*HEART beat
*PROBABILITY theory
*SOCIAL marketing
*STATISTICS
*VIDEO recording
*DATA analysis
*REPEATED measures design
*UNDERGRADUATES
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10410236
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Communication
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126796605
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1250186