Beyond fear appeals: Contradicting positive smoking outcome expectancies to influence smokers' implicit attitudes, perception, and behavior

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 548-551

  Glock, Sabine ^a   Unz, Dagmar ^b   Kovacs, Carrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit attitudes; Outcome expectancies; Public health; Smoking; Warning labels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PRODUCT PACKAGING; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857040591     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.11.032     Document Type: Article

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