To fear or not to fear? Applying the social amplification of risk framework on two environmental health risks in Singapore

By Yu Jie Ng, Z. Janet Yang, Arun Vishwanath. 2018

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Susan Michie

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1. Helen Christensen
2. Susan Michie
3. Andrew K. Przybylski
4. E. Bullmore
5. E. Alison Holman
6. R. Silver
7. Dana Rose Garfin
8. Daniel Sousa

Citations in the corpus

• Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, background): “81 Repeated media exposure to information about an infectious disease particularly can exacerbate stress responses, amplify worry, and impair functioning.”
• Role of Social Media in Shaping Public Risk Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review (2021, background): “Ng et al. (2018) propose that exposure to social media helps heighten risk perception of society far more than conventional media coverage.”
• The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) Outbreak: Amplification of Public Health Consequences by Media Exposure (2020, background): “However, misinformation can also spread on social media and can heighten perceived risk and fear about health-related topics (Ng, Yang, & Vishwanath, 2018; Wang, McKee, Torbica, & Stuckler, 2019), which makes the responsible use of social media imperative.”