Under what conditions can a nonprescription drug label serve as refutation text? The role of directed attention and processing strategy

Nonprescription drug labels are relatively ineffective in refuting drug misconceptions. We sought to improve the effectiveness of an aspirin label as a refutation text by manipulating selective attention and label-processing strategy. After reading a facsimile label, those of 196 undergraduates who...

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Main Authors: Michael P Ryan, Paula L Costa, Aubrey B Cruz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-09-01
Series:Health Psychology Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102917730676