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Adam S Richards

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Rains S, Richards A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2024 Sep; 121(41):e2409246121. PMID: 39348533
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Rains S, Richards A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2024 Feb; 121(8):e2313610121. PMID: 38359292
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some US states mandated vaccination for certain citizens. We used state-level data from the CDC to test whether vaccine mandates predicted changes in COVID-19 vaccine uptake,...
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Richards A, Semelsberger J, Middleton A, Richards B
Health Commun . 2023 Jun; 39(8):1499-1509. PMID: 37271964
This research investigated the predictors of satisfaction for parents of pediatric patients after a clinical consultation. Specifically, we assessed whether perceptions of their provider's communication quality influenced the degree to...
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Richards A, Qin Y, Daily K, Nan X
J Health Commun . 2021 Aug; 26(8):534-544. PMID: 34427548
This experiment assessed how the frame of promotional vaccine messages elicited psychological reactance differently for African American parents according to their level of perceived vaccine efficacy. We found that those...
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Richards A, Bessarabova E, Banas J, Bernard D
Health Commun . 2020 Oct; 37(3):366-374. PMID: 33106046
This study compared the relative efficacy of two strategies designed to mitigate psychological reactance in health campaigns by using reminders of behavioral autonomy: preemptive scripts, which appear before the appeal,...
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Armstrong K, Richards A, Boyd K
Health Commun . 2019 Dec; 36(6):663-670. PMID: 31818126
This study investigated whether color cues in health PSAs affect people's experience of psychological reactance to health recommendations. By integrating psychological reactance theory and color-in-context theory, we predicted that reactance...
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Richards A, Larsen M
Health Commun . 2016 Nov; 32(12):1491-1500. PMID: 27824262
This study examined how anger expression tendencies moderate the negative consequences of state reactance. An experiment was conducted whereby participants (N = 226) read a health public service announcement (PSA)...
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Richards A, Banas J, Magid Y
Health Commun . 2016 Jul; 32(7):890-902. PMID: 27435518
This research examined the efficacy of inoculation as a strategy to mitigate psychological reactance based on the level of threat communicated in the forewarning and subsequent persuasive health appeal. Two...
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Richards A, Banas J
Health Commun . 2014 Jun; 30(5):451-60. PMID: 24972121
This investigation examined the possibility of decreasing psychological reactance to health campaigns through the use of inoculation messages. It was hypothesized that an inoculation message, which forewarned of the potential...
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Paquin R, Richards A, Koehly L, McBride C
Transl Behav Med . 2013 Sep; 2(4):392-400. PMID: 24073142
Varying perspectives exist regarding the implications of genetic susceptibility testing for common disease, with some anticipating adverse effects and others expecting positive outcomes; however, little is known about the characteristics...