Comprehending Adverbs Of Doubt And Certainty In Health Communication: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach

Comprehending Adverbs Of Doubt And Certainty In Health Communication: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach

This research explored the feasibility of using multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis in novel combination with other techniques to study comprehension of epistemic adverbs expressing doubt and certainty (e.g., evidently, obviously, probably) as they relate to health communication in clinical sett...

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Main Authors: Norman S. Segalowitz, Marina M. Doucerain, Renata F.I. Meuter, Yue eZhao, Julia eHocking, Andrew G. Ryder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Health Communication
Physician-Patient Relations
cultural consensus analysis
multidimensional scaling
Semantic space
Epistemic adverbs
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00558/full

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