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ArticleMedia psychology2016

Selective Exposure to Health Information: The Role of Headline Features in the Choice of Health Newsletter Articles.

Hyun Suk Kim, Heather Forquer, Joseph Rusko, Robert C Hornik, Joseph N Cappella

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Article in Media psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hyun Suk KimAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Heather ForquerAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Joseph RuskoJP Medical.
Robert C HornikAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Joseph N CappellaAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

UPENN TCORS: Tobacco Product Messaging in a Complex Communication EnvironmentP50CA179546 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HORNIK, ROBERT C., LERMAN, CARYN · 2013 to 2017
$18.7M
Training / Career DevelopmentP20CA095856 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HORNIK, ROBERT C. · 2008 to 2012
$8.7M
NCI NIH HHS P20 CA095856NCI NIH HHS P50 CA179546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigated how content and context features of headlines drive selective exposure when choosing between headlines of a monthly e-mail health newsletter in a naturalistic setting over a period of nine months. Study participants received a monthly e-mail newsletter and could freely open it and click any headline to read the accompanying article. In each e-mail newsletter, nine headlines competed with each other for selection. Textual and visual information of the headlines was content-analyzed, and clickstream data on the headlines were collected automatically. The results showed that headlines invited more frequent audience selections when they provided efficacy-signaling information in an imperative voice, when they used a moderate number of negative emotion words, when they presented negative thumbnail images while mentioning cancer or other diseases, and when they were placed higher in position.

Indexed as

health communicationInternetmessage effectsnewsselective exposure

Identifiers

PMID28255280
PMCPMC5330294
OpenAlexW2274622689

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Registered trials

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