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2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

The Immediate Suppression and Delayed Persuasion of Health Information with High-Arousal Sentence Starters: Evidences from Health News Repository and Experimental Studies

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Social

  • Xiaoyu Zhou
    Tsinghua University
  • Zhang Tan
    Tsinghua University
  • Danjun Wang
    Tsinghua University
  • Fei Wang
    Tsinghua University
  • Kaiping Peng
    Tsinghua University
  • Ruihang Liu
    Sichuan University

Abstract

Individuals are overexposed to tabloid-like information online, like information with high-arousal sentence starters (HASS), such as “shocking!”. Previous research has investigated the immediate impacts of such news, few studies have studied its long-term impacts. The current study examined both the short- and long-term persuasion effects of shock-mongering health information.

Communication

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