Undoing the Effects of Seizing and Freezing: Decreasing Defensive Processing of Personally Relevant Messages

By Lauren G. Block, Patti Y. Williams. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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The processing of fear‐arousing communications: How biased processing leads to persuasion (2008, background): “…instead of assessing perceptions, for example, by comparing smokers and nonsmokers, or coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers (e.g., Beck & Davis, 1978; Block & Williams, 2002), whereas we emphasize the importance of those people who belong to a vulnerable group to actually feel vulnerable.”
How Disgust Enhances the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals (2012, methodology): “In line with this model, people have been found to “seize and freeze” in response to threatening messages about future health risks (Block and Williams 2002) and following exposure to socially threatening images but not the actual objects (Roelofs, Hagenaars, and Stins 2010).”
When a day means more than a year: Effects of temporal framing on judgments of health risk (2004, background): “…of Difficulty of Preventive Behavior (Hypothesis 3) Understanding how risk assessment is affected by various specifications of risk factors (e.g., Block and Williams 2002) is crucial since individuals' perceived risk has been established as a necessary precursor to behavioral change (Witte 1998).”
When Blemishing Leads to Blossoming: The Positive Effect of Negative Information (2012, background): “…activity has been shown to reduce defensive reactions and open people up to conflicting information (e.g., information that contradicts one’s initial belief or previous behavior; Block and Williams 2002), which should lead them to incorporate that information into their overall judgments.”
Measuring defensive responses to threatening messages: a meta-analysis of measures (2007, methodology): “Measures of perceived persuasiveness or strength of evidence were also frequently used (Block & Williams, 2002; Cohen et al., 2000, study 2; Correll et al., 2004; Harris & Napper, 2005; Reed & Aspinwall, 1998).”
Defensive reactions to health-promoting information: an overview and implications for future research (2013, background): “…finding that health-promoting information is least effective for those recipients for whom it is most relevant (e.g., Berkowitz & Cottingham, 1960; Block & Williams, 2002; Croyle, Sun, & Louie, 1993; Ditto & Lopez, 1992; Earl et al., 2009; Good & Abraham, 2007; Jemmott, Ditto, & Croyle, 1986;…”