Matching Health Messages to Information-Processing Styles: Need for Cognition and Mammography Utilization

Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-392

  Williams Piehota, Pamela ^a   Schneider, Tamera R ^a   Pizarro, Judith ^a   Mowad, Linda ^a   Salovey, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; THINKING;

EID: 0242459890     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327027HC1504_01     Document Type: Article

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