Unintended Effects of Risk Communication: Impacts of Message Fatigue, Risk Tolerance, and Trust in Public Health Information on Psychological Reactance

How individuals experience unintended effects of risk messages is an understudied area. Focusing on three types of unintended effects (i.e., message fatigue, risk tolerance, and psychological reactance) associated with health risk communication, we conducted an online survey among Italian adults (N...

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Main Authors: Youngji Seo, Silvia Ravazzani, Hyoyeun Jun, Yan Jin, Alfonsa Butera, Alessandra Mazzei, Bryan H. Reber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Netherlands Press 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research
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Online Access:https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol4/iss3/4/