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Citation |
Waters EA, Weinstein ND, Colditz GA, Emmons KM. Br. J. Health Psychol. 2007; 12(3): 383-401. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2007, British Psychological Society) |
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Abstract |
Objectives. Individuals may be overly sensitive to the side effects of treatments aimed at preventing illness, in part because they have difficulty in evaluating situations with several possible outcomes that differ in probability. This study tested willingness to undergo a hypothetical preventive treatment and accuracy in determining the probability of harm from the treatment as a function of the presence of a side effect, the initial probability of harm, the format in which probabilities were presented (percentages or frequencies), and the presence or absence of a graphic. |