Persuasive communication about AIDS prevention: Need for cognition determines the impact of message format

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 150-162

  Bakker, Arnold B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; ADOLESCENTS; AGE FACTORS; COMMUNICATION; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EDUCATION; EUROPE; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MASS MEDIA; NETHERLANDS; PERSUASION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRINTED MEDIA; RESEARCH REPORT; STUDENTS; VIRAL DISEASES; WESTERN EUROPE; YOUTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING;

EID: 0032966775     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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