Rachel Wade
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Wade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wade |
| SIGNATURE | WADE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5966-0121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating the cyberhealth divide
Informed by the modified structural influence model, we conducted a secondary data analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey 6 (HINTS 6; N = 6,046) to examine how satisfaction with internet quality, as an indicator of technological accessibility, may be associated with disparities in telehealth use and healthcare outcomes, including perceived quality of healthcare and delay of care. The moderating role of patient-centered com…
When Fears Come True
624 U.S. adults) was designed to approximate how well patients attend to information during a cancer-related doctor visit. To make this assessment, we manipulated mortality salience (present, absent) and language complexity (simple words, complex words) to understand whether these factors impact newly diagnosed patients' ability to attend to relevant treatment information. Message attention was measured through a comprehension quiz and a signal d…
The Role of Framing, Race, and Symbolic Racism in Policy Support
Improving processing fluency to encourage family health information seeking
Drawing from the metacognitive literature, this experimental study examines how the relative ease of retrieving information (i.e. processing fluency) impacts individuals' efficacy about engaging in family health discussions and interpersonal information seeking intention across two health topics: family organ donation status and family health history. Participants ( N = 609) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Those in the easy ret…
The effects of moral norms and anticipated guilt on Covid19 prevention behaviors
Development and validation of the commitment to social activism scale using the Thurstone scaling procedure
This paper centers on social activism, a distinctive form of behavior characterized by escalating actions that vary in degrees of difficulty and commitment. Rather than adopting a Likert scaling approach, we embrace a Thurstone technique to construct a commitment to social activism scale (CSAS). We incorporate focus groups, online survey data, and tests of validity in a multistage approach. The validity of CSAS was examined using convergent (acti…
Assessing the Potential of Partisan Group Cues in Promoting Accurate Beliefs
Recent work on misinformation has indicated a role for social and group-based factors in shaping people’s beliefs on factual matters, suggesting that communicators might be able to leverage social cues in messages aimed at promoting more accurate beliefs. To test this possibility, we conducted an online experiment (N = 605) to assess whether partisan in-group cues across several factual claims are effective in either promoting more accurate belie…
Assessing the Potential of Partisan Group Cues in Promoting Accurate Beliefs
Recent work on misinformation has indicated a role for social and group-based factors in shaping people’s beliefs on factual matters, suggesting that communicators might be able to leverage social cues in messages aimed at promoting more accurate beliefs. To test this possibility, we conducted an online experiment (N = 605) to assess whether partisan in-group cues across several factual claims are effective in either promoting more accurate belie…
The effects of moral norms and anticipated guilt on Covid19 prevention behaviors
Development and validation of the commitment to social activism scale using the Thurstone scaling procedure
This paper centers on social activism, a distinctive form of behavior characterized by escalating actions that vary in degrees of difficulty and commitment. Rather than adopting a Likert scaling approach, we embrace a Thurstone technique to construct a commitment to social activism scale (CSAS). We incorporate focus groups, online survey data, and tests of validity in a multistage approach. The validity of CSAS was examined using convergent (acti…
When Fears Come True
624 U.S. adults) was designed to approximate how well patients attend to information during a cancer-related doctor visit. To make this assessment, we manipulated mortality salience (present, absent) and language complexity (simple words, complex words) to understand whether these factors impact newly diagnosed patients' ability to attend to relevant treatment information. Message attention was measured through a comprehension quiz and a signal d…
The Role of Framing, Race, and Symbolic Racism in Policy Support
Improving processing fluency to encourage family health information seeking
Drawing from the metacognitive literature, this experimental study examines how the relative ease of retrieving information (i.e. processing fluency) impacts individuals' efficacy about engaging in family health discussions and interpersonal information seeking intention across two health topics: family organ donation status and family health history. Participants ( N = 609) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Those in the easy ret…
Navigating the cyberhealth divide
Informed by the modified structural influence model, we conducted a secondary data analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey 6 (HINTS 6; N = 6,046) to examine how satisfaction with internet quality, as an indicator of technological accessibility, may be associated with disparities in telehealth use and healthcare outcomes, including perceived quality of healthcare and delay of care. The moderating role of patient-centered com…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Interpersonal communication (2 works) · Media Influence and Health (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (2 works)