Abstract:The dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public is important, because the public's increased awareness and knowledge of science and scientific findings can contribute to creating healthy discourses about relevant topics. The dissertation was designed to understand how inoculation messages, message sources, and visual representations of risk information influence newsreaders' attentional, cognitive, and behavioral responses on health news articles. The findings suggested that inoculation messages may no… Show more
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