A number of social cognition models have been developed to account for socio-
demographic variations in health behaviour. This paper distinguishes between:(a) …

Background Suboptimal treatment adherence remains a barrier to the control of many
infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which contribute significantly to …

Health informatics interventions are designed to help people avoid, recover from, or cope
with disease and disability, or to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Unfortunately …

During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, US conservative politicians and the
media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of …

There has been increasing criticism of the way psychologists conduct and analyze studies.
These critiques as well as failures to replicate several high-profile studies have been used …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to
understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom …

This research found that older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging,
measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self …

Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

As modern lifestyles offer ever more opportunities for a sedentary existence, physical activity
has become, for many, a marginal aspect of life. Too little physical activity is linked to …