Perceived breast cancer risk: Heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 421-432

  Katapodi, Maria C ^a   Facione, Noreen C ^b   Humphreys, Janice C ^a   Dodd, Marylin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Dominance structure; Heuristic reasoning analysis; Optimistic bias; Perceived risk; USA

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

ADULT; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7544245533     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.014     Document Type: Article

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