When Fears Come True: An Experimental Approximation of Patient Comprehension During Initial Cancer Diagnoses.

An experiment (N = 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...

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Publicado en:Health Communication Vol. 40; no. 8; pp. 1403 - 1415
Autores principales: Bashian, Samuel, Wade, Rachel Barry, Lerner, Blue, Shulman, Hillary C.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2025
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