Effects of fear and specificity of recommendation upon attitudes and behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10154164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Leventhal (0000-0001-5601-2500, corresponding author), Robert Singer, Susan Jones (0000-0003-0639-1586), Susan E Jones (0000-0002-3052-2542) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-29 |
| Publication date | 1965-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/h0022089 |
| PMID | 14313839 |
| OpenAlex | W2024464792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 123 |
| References cited | 11 |
Communication in Education and Healthcare · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology
Juror comprehension and public policy
Commitment and Behavior Change
Fear appeals and persuasion
Fear, Denial, and Sensible Action in the Face of Disasters
Clear danger
Fifteen years of fear arousal
The smoking problem
Selected Psychosocial Models and Correlates of Individual Health-Related Behaviors
Judgment and Decision Making
History of Social Psychology
Coping and Social Support
An Axiomatized, Stochastic Model of the Behavioral Effects of Message Campaigns
Wise interventions
Using implementation intentions prompts to enhance influenza vaccination rates
Findings and Theory in the Study of Fear Communications
The Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSM)
Beyond Willpower
Threatening communication
Scary warnings and rational precautions
Interventions to change health behaviours
Sixty years of fear appeal research
Risk Perception and Protective Behaviors During the Rise of the Covid-19 Outbreak in Italy
Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor
Increasing Vaccination
The Multiple Affective Outcomes of Aids PSAs
Modeling Health Behavior Change
Attainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagement
The Extended Parallel Process Model
Implementation Intention and Action Planning Interventions in Health Contexts
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals
Effect of Risk and Protective Decision Aids on Flood Preparation in Vulnerable Communities
Economic and Behavioral Influencers of Vaccination and Antimicrobial Use
Using virtual reality to study human response to flood risk across controlled experiments
Predicting and understanding seasonal influenza vaccination behaviour among forensic mental health inpatients
Quantity and specificity of action-plans as predictors of weight loss
How Much Is Enough? The Relationship Between Prosocial Effort and Moral Character Judgments
Citizens and Service Delivery
Fear Appeals
Effects of fear and instructions on how to cope with danger
Effects of varying the recommendations in a fear-arousing communication
Personality and compliance
Specificity of planning in adult self-control
Effects of accurate expectations and behavioral instructions on reactions during a noxious medical examination
Fear-provoking recommendations, intentions to take preventive actions, and actual preventive actions
A Protection Motivation Theory of Fear Appeals and Attitude Change1
Acceptance by children of a daily home mouthrinse program
“Instrumental coping” and “Affective defense”
The short term effects of psychological preparation for surgery
“Instrumental coping” and “affective defense”
Acceptance by children of a daily home mouthrinse program
Sources of resistance to fear-arousing communications on smoking and lung cancer1
False physiological feedback and persuasion
The influence of a physician on the smoking of his patients
From abstract ideas to concrete instances
Direct Threat and Political Tolerance an Experimental Analysis of the Tolerance of Blacks Toward Racists
Affect arousal and positioning of recommendations in persuasive communications
The Valid Assessment of Others' Beliefs
Increasing Physical Exercise through Action and Coping Planning
The Role of Dopamine Receptor D2 in Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap in Sport Participation
Possible Selves as Behavioral Standards in Self-regulation
A cluster randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of an individual planning intervention with collaborative planning in adolescent friendship dyads to enhance physical activity (TWOgether)
Online Pestkoppenstoppen
The role of action planning and plan enactment for smoking cessation
A Dyadic Action Control Trial in Overweight and Obese Couples (Dyactic)
Is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Effective for Changing Health Behaviours? Commentary on Hobbis and Sutton
Environmental behavior structure and socio-economic conditions of hillside farmers
The impact of action plans on habit and intention strength for physical activity in a web-based intervention
Approaches to Encouraging Conservation Behavior
Arousal Role Playing and Persuasion
The Effects of False Physiological Feedback and Subject Relevance Upon Belief Acceptance
Behavioral Effects of Attitudinal Change
New Measure of Effects of Persuasive Communications
Attitudinal and Behavioral Reactions to Fear-Arousing Communications
Will Classroom Instruction Change Attitudes toward Drug Abuse
Some Changes Required to Increase the Public's Utilization of Preventive Dentistry
Fear-Arousing Persuasive Messages
Norm Perception as a Vehicle for Social Change
Increasing Physical Exercise Levels
Farmers’ perceptions, awareness, attitudes and adaption behaviour towards climate change
Promoting lower-carbon lifestyles
Attitude and Behavior in (Classic) Social Psychology and Rabbinic Thought
Rethinkin the Study of Fear Appeals
The climate change research that makes the front page
How the Consideration of Positive Emotions Influences Persuasion
Measuring up? Non-profit and commercial language policies in Gaelic-speaking Scotland
Messages as replications
Do Virtual Environments Close the Gender Gap in Participation in Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences? In Search of Moderation by Conference Format
Does terrorism make people pessimistic? Evidence from a natural experiment
The Effectiveness of Alcohol Warning Lables
A brief intervention increases fruit and vegetable intake. A comparison of two intervention sequences
Try it; it's good and it's good for you ”
Facta non verba”
Involvement with a disease and primary care utilization
The role of esteem and coping in response to a threat communication
Perceived aversiveness of recommended solution and locus of control as determinants of response to danger
Mass inoculation in a community
Effective and ineffective use of fear in health promotion campaigns
The effects of fear arousal, fear position, fear exposure, and sidedness on compliance with dietary instructions
How planning facilitates behaviour change
Action planning and coping planning for long-term lifestyle change
The effects of mass communication
Personality Differences Associated with Responsiveness to Fear-Arousing Communications1
A field experiment on fear arousal with data on the validity of questionnaire measures1
Persistence of Influence for Varying Durations of Exposure to Threat Stimuli
An Application of the Method of Successive Intervals to the Study of Fear-Arousing Information
The relationship between coping and avoiding behavior and response to fear-arousing propaganda
Argument strength, delay of argument, and anxiety in the "conditioning" and "selective learning" of attitudes
An experimental study of psychological resistances to fear arousing communications
A relationship between self-esteem and persuasibility
Effects of fear-arousing communications
The interest value and relevance of fear arousing communications
| Unique citing works | 123 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,05 |
| Citation span | 1966 - 2026 (61) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 115 |