Defensive reactions to health-promoting information: An overview and implications for future research

Health Psychology Review

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL1, 2013, Pages

  van't Riet, Jonathan ^a   Ruiter, Robert A C ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

defensive reactions; health communication; motivated reasoning; persuasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879143102     PISSN: 17437199     EISSN: 17437202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2011.606782     Document Type: Article

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