Stigma cues increase self-conscious emotions and decrease likelihood of attention to information about preventing stigmatized health issues


Stigma cues increase self-conscious emotions and decrease likelihood of attention to information about preventing stigmatized health issues
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Christina A. Nisson ; Dolores Albarracín ;Acta de Investigación PsicológicaPsychological Research Records 2015, 5 1
Autor: Allison Earl
Fuente: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=358941542005
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Earl, Allison; Nisson, Christina A.; Albarracín, Dolores
Stigma Cues Increase Self-Conscious Emotions and Decrease Likelihood of Attention to
Information about Preventing Stigmatized Health Issues
Acta de Investigación Psicológica - Psychological Research Records, vol.
5, núm.
1, abril,
2015, pp.
1860-1871
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Distrito Federal, México
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ACTA DE INVESTIGACIÓN PSICOLÓGICA, 2015, 5 (1), 1860 - 1871
Stigma Cues Increase Self-Conscious Emotions and Decrease Likelihood of
Attention to Information about Preventing Stigmatized Health Issues
Allison Earl1, Christina A.
Nisson, & Dolores Albarracín*
University of Michigan, * University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Health communications are only effective if target audiences actually receive the
messages.
One potential barrier to effective health communication is the potential stigma of
attending to health information, particularly for stigmatizing health issues.
The purpose of the
present paper was to examine when participants report self-conscious emotions (e.g., shame,
embarrassment) in response to health communications, as well as likelihood of reading health
information associated with these emotions.
Across three studies, participants read information
about preventing diseases that are either highly stigmatized or non-stigmatized.
Increased
accessibility of stigma cues by (a) manipulating the perceived absence vs.
presence of others,
or (b) measuring lower vs.
higher rejecti...