Disruption and Identity Maintenance in Risk Information Seeking and Processing

Communication Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-162

  Braun, Joshua ^a   Niederdeppe, Jeff ^b  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84859494293     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2012.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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