Self-affirmation alters the brain’s response to health messages and subsequent behavior change

Health communications can be an effective way to increase positive health behaviors and decrease negative health behaviors; however, those at highest risk are often most defensive and least open to such messages. For example, increasing physical activity among sedentary individuals affects a wide ra...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Falk, Emily B., O’Donnell, Matthew Brook, Cascio, Christopher N., Tinney, Francis, Kang, Yoona, Lieberman, Matthew D., Taylor, Shelley E., An, Lawrence, Resnicow, Kenneth, Strecher, Victor J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2015
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Social Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4343089/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25646442
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500247112
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