… negative emotions alone. Because mixed emotional messages contain both positive and
negative … prevent defensive reactions that can accompany negative-only emotional appeals. …

… Centering on health consciousness, this study systematically examines how health
consciousness affects information seeking and whether negative emotions and efficacy intervene in …

… roles of negative emotions in eliciting information seeking and furthermore, online information
… individuals with low threat and low efficacy will seek health information to the least extent. …

… , little is known about why some people with cancer choose to seek further information …
factors, negative emotion and health self-efficacy, on patients' health information use. Using the …

… health information is imperative. Although the negative outcomes of conflicting health
information are … cognitive mechanism of health decision-making when presented with conflicting …

… between COVID-19 information overload and negative emotions such as anxiety and …
be offered at every key node in this process of negative changes in psychological states. …

… and turning to the internet for health information is a double-edged … relationship between
negative emotions and prevention … health information seeking (OHIS) on negative emotions and …

… negative emotion may interrupt the effects of self-affirmation condition on defensiveness toward
health risk information… generated significantly less specific health behavior change plans …

… that a negative emotional response to a media message about a risky behavior can be tagged
to that behavior, acting as an alarm for future behavior, but only if that emotional response …

… discrete emotion fosters the processing of health information, … message when the primed
emotion is negative. Furthermore, … information leads to an increase in the negative emotional …