Psychological reactance theory is a commonly relied upon framework for understanding
audience members' resistance to persuasive health messages. This review article provides …

Narrative forms of communication—including entertainment education, journalism, literature,
testimonials, and storytelling—are emerging as important tools for cancer prevention and …

Critical and stressful situations can emerge in many different forms in our daily life.
Sometimes the stressful situations can be more serious in national or global level, such as …

Objectives This study aims to evaluate the impact of psychological and sociodemographic
variables on perceived personal and comparative susceptibility to diseases caused by a …

One of the largest determinants of client outcomes is the counselor who provides treatment.
Therapists often vary widely in effectiveness, even when delivering standardized manual …

Perceived realism may be a crucial message characteristic facilitating narrative-based
persuasion. This study examined dimensions of perceived realism and their roles in …

This article examines the role of message-induced state empathy in persuasion. Message-
induced empathy is conceptualized as a perception–action process that consists of affective …

State empathy during message processing was conceptualized as a process where
perception of the characters' state automatically activates the recipient's vicarious …

This article describes a Narrative Engagement Framework (NEF) for guiding communication-
based prevention efforts. This framework suggests that personal narratives have distinctive …

Risk communication is key to engaging with the public on non-pharmaceutical interventions
(NPIs) to promote acceptance, compliance and policy support. This article outlines the …