Receptive to an authoritative voice? Experimental evidence on how patronizing language and stressing institutional sources affect public receptivity to nutrition information

Common strategies to make official nutrition information more persuasive include highlighting its institutional sources and using simple and direct language. However, such strategies may be counterproductive, as institutions are no longer self-evidently deemed to be legitimate in contemporary societ...

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Main Authors: Tim van Meurs, Joost Oude Groeniger, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827322002749