Fear Appeals and the Formation of Active Publics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20299352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Connie Roser (Schneider Electric (France)), Margaret Thompson (0000-0001-7720-9871), Margaret E Thompson (0009-0006-8210-3784, Thompson Rivers University) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-121 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00717.x |
| OpenAlex | W1977432150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 17 |
This study examines the process through which a fear appeal may transform low-involvement audiences into active publics. Cognitive and emotional responses of uninvolved viewers to a film on environmental contamination are analyzed, together with the coping strategies used to deal with the threat. The research integrates Grunig's situational theory of publics with Rogers' protection-motivation theory to expand the predictive ability of the situational theory. The data indicate that post-test public membership, cognitive activity and emotional arousal during viewing are significantly related to viewers' preferences for coping through message resistance, seeking additional information, or taking action on the film's topic. Results suggest that both cognition and affect mediate viewers' responses to a fearful message, thereby contributing to the creation of active publics who are persuaded to take action on a problem
Action (physics) · Affect (linguistics) · Appeal · Arousal · Cognition · Coping (psychology) · Fear appeal · Political science · Publics · Situational ethics · Communication · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
Teoría situacional de los públicos
The Empowerment of Feminist Scholarship in Public Relations and the Building of a Feminist Paradigm
Promoting lower-carbon lifestyles
Rethinkin the Study of Fear Appeals
The Persuasive Effects of Emotive Visual Imagery
Effects of Social Marketing
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals
Understanding Customers’ Reactions to Allegations of Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility
Bridging Two Schools of Thought
Language of the Lost
Fear appeal messages affect accessibility of attitudes toward the threat and adaptive behaviors
Time's Up
Climate Change Deniers and Advocacy
Are You Experienced
Advertising Animal Protection
Examining Emotion as Discourse
A Protection Motivation Theory of Fear Appeals and Attitude Change1
Fear appeals and attitude change
Issue involvement can increase or decrease persuasion by enhancing message-relevant cognitive responses
The effects of involvement on responses to argument quantity and quality
Audience Activity and Gratifications
The Impact of Television Advertising
Effects of fear arousal and reassurance on attitude change
Effects of components of protection-motivation theory on adaptive and maladaptive coping with a health threat
Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion
Involvement and communication discrepancy as determinants of opinion conformity
Implications of Concurrent Measures of Viewer Behavior
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2022 (53) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |