Do You Want the Good News or the Bad News First? The Nature and Consequences of News Order Preferences

Legg, Angela M.; Sweeny, Kate

doi:10.1177/0146167213509113

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“…Legg and Sweeny (2013) show that news recipients prefer to receive the bad news first, thus ending on a high note. Such recipients were in a better mood and worried less than recipients who heard bad news last.…”

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On Workplace Investment in Employee Well-Being

Bulmash

2016

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Section: The Recency Biasmentioning

confidence: 94%

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2016

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“…Additional issues that impact on parents in EoL contexts are issues such as the ordering of good and bad news delivery with apparent differences between preferred deliverer and recipient ordering [72]. People delivering news seem to prefer delivering good news prior to bad news, as this eases their own distress [72].…”

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“…People delivering news seem to prefer delivering good news prior to bad news, as this eases their own distress [72]. However, recipients of news prefer the reverse order [72].…”

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“…People delivering news seem to prefer delivering good news prior to bad news, as this eases their own distress [72]. However, recipients of news prefer the reverse order [72]. This has important implications for EoL communication where bad news about, for example, limitation of treatments needs to precede and be balanced with good news about treatments and comfort that can be offered to the child.…”

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Death talk: Basic linguistic rules and communication in perinatal and paediatric end-of-life discussions

Xafis

Watkins

Wilkinson

2016

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…This type of data visualization, or information graphic, appears to be effective in many cases for reversing the tendency of patients to think in terms of unsupported, anecdotal stories (Fagerlin et al, 2005). Likewise, an un derstanding of how patients prefer to receive either good news or bad news after receiving a screening test could offer guidance on how to break that news to patients (Legg & Sweeny, 2014). Continued work is needed to improve the communication frames that are taken as defaults throughout health care systems.…”

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Cancer communication and informatics research across the cancer continuum.

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Beckjord²,

Rutten³

et al. 2015

American Psychologist

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Over the past decade, dramatic changes brought about by a rapid diffusion of Internet technologies, cellular telephones, mobile devices, personal digital assistants, electronic health records, and data visualization have helped to create a revolution in health communication. To understand the implications of this communication revolution for cancer care, the National Cancer Institute launched an ambitious set of research priorities under its "extraordinary opportunities" program. We present an overview of some of the relevant behavioral research being conducted within the perspective of this extraordinary opportunity in cancer communication research. We begin by tracing the implications of this research for behavioral scientists across the continuum of cancer care from primary prevention (e.g., tobacco control, diet, exercise, sun protection, and immunization against human papilloma virus), to secondary prevention (e.g., screening for polyps, lesions, and early stage neoplasms), to diagnosis and treatment, posttreatment survivorship, and end of life. Along each point of the continuum, we describe a natural evolution of knowledge from studies on the traditional role of media to research on the changing role of new media and informatics, and we carefully highlight the role that psychological research has played in improving communication- and health-related outcomes along the way. We conclude with an appeal to psychologists of many different backgrounds to join with biomedical researchers, engineers, clinical practitioners, and others to accelerate progress against cancer.

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Do You Want the Good News or the Bad News First? The Nature and Consequences of News Order Preferences

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

On Workplace Investment in Employee Well-Being

On Workplace Investment in Employee Well-Being

Death talk: Basic linguistic rules and communication in perinatal and paediatric end-of-life discussions

Cancer communication and informatics research across the cancer continuum.

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