Do People Devalue Sources of Threatening Health Feedback Particularly When Its Criteria Are Ambiguous and Its Consequences Enduring?

We tested the pre-registered hypotheses that receiving threatening health feedback would lead participants to disparage the health-assessment tool used to generate it and that quality of the assessment would moderate this effect. In Studies 1–3, undergraduate students completed a questionnaire inclu...

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Main Authors: Ashley M. Araiza, Antonio L. Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2020-04-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/259