Emerging evidence in health communication and psychology suggests that a) exposure to
specific persuasive health messages can have unintended effects on the mental well-being …

Background Policymakers worldwide are considering requiring warnings for sugary drinks.
A growing number of experimental studies have examined sugary drink warnings' impacts …

When the Fun Stops, Stop, is a prominent 'responsible gambling'campaign in the UK,
originally funded and delivered by the industry-initiated and funded Senet Group. Since the …

Social campaigns are persuasive messages that attempt to communicate positive ideas and
practices. One of the main challenges in designing effective social campaigns is the need to …

Much of media effects research examines the influence of content on people's thoughts,
feelings, and behavior. Adopting a dimensional view of emotion, this chapter reviews how …

Negativity bias, ie, tendency to respond strongly to negative stimuli, can be captured via
behavioural and psychophysiological responses to potential threat. A virtual environment …

Background To reduce diet-related chronic disease, policymakers have proposed requiring
health warnings on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Health warnings reduced …

Aims Among three eye‐tracking studies, we examined how cigarette pack features affected
visual attention and self‐reported avoidance of and reactance to warnings. Design Study 1 …

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need for investigating the prevalence and
nature of health communication on social media. Applying the Extended Parallel Process …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the effectiveness of pictorial warning
labels that leverage the risk of obesity as a deterrent against alcohol abuse. It evaluates the …