Emotion, health decision making, and health behaviour

“Heart disease never entered my head”: Women's understanding of coronary heart disease risk factors

“…() and highlight the need for the patient's voice to be heard, to support patient engagement, to reduce the “compromised” lives they are living. Ferrer and Berry Mendes () emphasise that health decisions and behaviour take place in emotionally laden contexts; thus, affective states contribute to and influence health decision‐making and behaviour change. The vision of the Health Services Executive (HSE) () in the “Make every Contact Count” initiative is that healthcare providers can empower and support people with chronic illness to make healthier choices and achieve positive health outcomes.…”

Learning R Programming Language With Psi Chi

“…Papies, Potjes, Keesman, Schwinghammer, & van Koningsbruggen, 2014). It could also be that the experimental condition was more emotionally arousing than the control condition; emotions are known to influence healthrelated behaviors and decisions (Ferrer & Mendes, 2018). Finally, whereas the control condition focused participants' attention on the immediate past, the experimental condition encouraged participants to focus on either past, present, or future actions.…”

Conceptualizing and intervening on affective determinants of health behaviour

“…science. This view is supported by the recent special issue of Psychology and Health (Ferrer & Mendes, 2018) and also an edited volume on this topic (Williams, Rhodes, & Conner, 2018a).…”