Social Comparison Framing in Health News and Its Effect on Perceptions of Group Risk

Health Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 267-280

  Bigman, Cabral A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891832042     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.745043     Document Type: Article

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