ArticleJournal of health communication2021
Death Narratives, Negative Emotion, and Counterarguing: Testing Fear, Anger, and Sadness as Mechanisms of Effect.
Article in Journal of health communication, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Missing Mechanism of Effect: How People Who Habitually Replot Stories React Differently (Or Not so Differently) to Melanoma Narratives.Journal of health communication · 2025Trial
- Self-Protection Motivation and Its Psychological Construction: A Process Model Distinguishing Two Unique Motivational Orientations.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026Review
- From Stories to Action: How Framing, Perspective, and Identifiability in Personal Narratives Influence Vaccination Decisions.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026Article
- Intention to Screen for Hepatitis C Among University Students: Influence of Different Communicative Scenarios.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Narrative messaging research has demonstrated that story outcome (e.g., whether the main character lives or dies) can impact audience behavior, but more research explicating and testing mechanistic pathways is needed. The current study tests fear, anger, and sadness as mechanisms of persuasion, assessing effects on counterarguing, reading flow, and behavioral intention. The current study utilized a 2 (story outcome: death vs. survivor) × 4 (story character: Marla, Erin, Don, and Ray) between-participants experiment (
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