To your health: Self-Regulation of health behavior through selective exposure to online health messages

Journal of Communication

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 807-829

  Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a   Johnson, Benjamin K ^a   Westerwick, Axel ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84884973948     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12055     Document Type: Article

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