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ArticleThe Journal of communication2022

Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis.

Elisabeth Bigsby, Dolores Albarracín

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Article in The Journal of communication, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Can Knowledge Counteract Conflict? A Partial Replication Study of PFAS Science Communication.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026
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  5. Wanting to Be "Accepted and Heard": Perspectives About Cessation Messages From LGBTQ+ Individuals Who Dual Use Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  12. Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Elisabeth BigsbyDepartment of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5808-1005
Dolores AlbarracínAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Funding

Digital, Community-Led, Social Action Initiative to Reduce Opioid Vulnerability and HIV/HCV in Rural Areas of the Midwest and AppalachiaDP1DA048570 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2019 to 2023
$4.0M
Mining Social Media Messages for HIV Testing and Prevention CommunicationR01MH114847 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2018 to 2022
$2.9M
Development and validation of regional models of HIV vulnerabilities and solutionsR01AI147487 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2019 to 2022
$2.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI147487NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA048570NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH114847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Behavioral OutcomesExtended Parallel Process ModelFear AppealsMeta-AnalysisResponse EfficacySelf-Efficacy

Identifiers

PMID40963740
PMCPMC12437762

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