We're at as Much Risk as We Are Led to Believe: Effects of Message Cues on Judgments of Health Risk

By Geeta Menon, Lauren G. Block, S. Ramanathan. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Subjective Knowledge, Search Locations, and Consumer Choice (2004, background): “Given the importance of health to consumer research (e.g. Block and Keller 1995; Luce and Kahn 1999; Menon, Block, and Ramanathan 2002; Moorman and Matulich 1993; Russo et al. 1986; Thompson and Troester 2002; Wansink 2002), we use nutrition knowledge and food choice as the context for all our…”
Bringing the frame into focus: the influence of regulatory fit on processing fluency and persuasion. (2004, methodology): “Borrowing from Menon, Block, and Ramanathan (2002) , we used scenarios suggesting that the probability of getting mononucleosis was either high (i.e., exposure via frequent behaviors) or low (exposure via infrequent behaviors).”
Getting Emotional about Health (2007, methodology): “Following the procedures that Menon, Block, and Ramanathan (2002) adopt, we measure message effectiveness by presenting a subsequent New York Times article about hepatitis C and eliciting participants’ attitudes toward this article.”
Be Fit and Be Strong: Mastering Self‐Regulation through Regulatory Fit (2008, background): “The message first described the cause, symptoms, and consequences of hepatitis, followed by the perceived risk manipulation (Menon et al. 2002).”
Regulating Risk or Risking Regulation? Construal Levels and Depletion Effects in the Processing of Health Messages (2009, background): “The second and third pages presented information describing the hepatitis C virus and its contraction, prevention, and treatment (Menon et al. 2002).”
When a day means more than a year: Effects of temporal framing on judgments of health risk (2004, background): “…another person) leads to positivity effects such that one perceives oneself as less prone to negative events such as becoming ill (Perloff and Fetzer 1986), having an accident (Robertson 1977), and contracting AIDS (Raghubir and Menon 1998) or hepatitis C (Menon et al. 2002) as compared to others.”
Motivating Customers to Adhere to Expert Advice in Professional Services (2015, background): “Communicating the potential for negative consequences can offset customers’ self-positivity bias and weaken beliefs of invulnerability, thereby motivating behavioral change (Brewer et al. 2004; Menon, Block, and Ramanathan 2002).”
Positive cueing: Promoting sustainable consumer behavior by cueing common environmental behaviors as environmental (2008, result): “This result is in line with the findings of Menon, Block, and Ramanathan (2002).”