APS
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
- 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