Message frames and illness representations: Implications for interventions to promote and sustain healthy behavior

The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 278-296

  Rothman, Alexander J ^a   Kelly, Kristina M ^a   Hertel, Andrew W ^a   Salovey, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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