Effects of affective states on colorectal cancer screening health message persuasion depend on whether people avoid cancer information
Journal of Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary, International Journal
Published online on December 30, 2025
Abstract
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People frequently defensively avoid information about threatening health conditions. We tested whether, consistent with a mood-as-a-resource hypothesis, inducing high arousal positive mood (vs high arousal negative or neutral mood) would decrease ...
People frequently defensively avoid information about threatening health conditions. We tested whether, consistent with a mood-as-a-resource hypothesis, inducing high arousal positive mood (vs high arousal negative or neutral mood) would decrease ...