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"Don't know" responses to risk perception measures: implications for underserved populations.

scientific article published on February 2013

"I don't believe it." Acceptance and skepticism of genetic health information among African-American and White smokers

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

"I don't know" My Cancer Risk: Implications for Health Behavior Engagement.

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"I don't know" my cancer risk: exploring deficits in cancer knowledge and information-seeking skills to explain an often-overlooked participant response

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

A Primer on Unrealistic Optimism

scientific article published on June 2015

Aversion to side effects in preventive medical treatment decisions

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Avoiding cancer risk information.

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Cancer prevention information-seeking among Hispanic and non-Hispanic users of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service: trends in telephone and LiveHelp use.

scientific article published on July 2009

Causes and consequences of uncertainty about illness risk perceptions.

scientific article published in December 2017

Cognitive and Affective Responses to Mass-media Based Genetic Risk Information in a Socio-demographically Diverse Sample of Smokers

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Combining risk communication strategies to simultaneously convey the risks of four diseases associated with physical inactivity to socio-demographically diverse populations

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Concerns about unintended negative consequences of informing the public about multifactorial risks may be premature for young adult smokers

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Development of a Cancer Risk Prediction Tool for Use in the UK Primary Care and Community Settings

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Don't know responses to cognitive and affective risk perception measures: Exploring prevalence and socio-demographic moderators

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Education-based disparities in knowledge of novel health risks: The case of knowledge gaps in HIV risk perceptions

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Examining strategies for addressing high levels of 'I don't know' responding to risk perception questions for colorectal cancer and diabetes: an experimental investigation

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Examining the Interrelations Among Objective and Subjective Health Literacy and Numeracy and Their Associations with Health Knowledge

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Explanations for side effect aversion in preventive medical treatment decisions

scientific article published on March 2009

Formats for Improving Risk Communication in Medical Tradeoff Decisions

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Health Literacy and Use and Trust in Health Information

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Health disparities in awareness of physical activity and cancer prevention: findings from the National Cancer Institute's 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

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How are multifactorial beliefs about the role of genetics and behavior in cancer causation associated with cancer risk cognitions and emotions in the US population?

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Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy

scientific article published in 2022

Low Health Literacy and Health Information Avoidance but Not Satisficing Help Explain "Don't Know" Responses to Questions Assessing Perceived Risk

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Multifactorial beliefs about the role of genetics and behavior in common health conditions: prevalence and associations with participant characteristics and engagement in health behaviors.

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Perceived Harms and Social Norms in the Use of Electronic Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Perceived risk, trust and health-related quality of life among cancer survivors

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Perceptions of cancer as a death sentence: prevalence and consequences

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Perceptions of the US National Tobacco Quitline Among Adolescents and Adults: A Qualitative Study, 2012-2013.

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Physical activity: the relative associations with cognitive and affective risk beliefs

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Prevalence of tamoxifen use for breast cancer chemoprevention among U.S. women.

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Public Awareness of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Findings from the 2013 U.S. Health Information National Trends Survey

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Public understanding of the illnesses caused by cigarette smoking

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Reactions to FDA-Proposed Graphic Warning Labels Affixed to U.S. Smokers' Cigarette Packs.

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Reducing aversion to side effects in preventive medical treatment decisions

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Requests for cancer prevention information: the cancer information service (2002-2006)

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Risk Ladder, Table, or Bulleted List? Identifying Formats That Effectively Communicate Personalized Risk and Risk Reduction Information for Multiple Diseases

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Risk estimates from an online risk calculator are more believable and recalled better when expressed as integers

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Situating household management of children's asthma in the context of social, economic, and environmental injustice

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Smokers' beliefs about the tobacco control potential of "a gene for smoking": a focus group study

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Smokers' unprompted comments on cigarette additives during conversations about the genetic basis for nicotine addiction: a focus group study.

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Spontaneous mental associations with the words "side effect": Implications for informed and shared decision making.

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Taking Stock of Unrealistic Optimism

scientific article published on July 2013

The Relationship Between Young Adult Smokers' Beliefs About Nicotine Addiction and Smoking-Related Affect and Cognitions

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The importance of affectively-laden beliefs about health risks: the case of tobacco use and sun protection

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Understanding the Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms that Underlie Proxy Risk Perceptions among Caregivers of Asthmatic Children.

scientific article published in April 2018

Use of tamoxifen and raloxifene for breast cancer chemoprevention in 2010

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Using the Short Graph Literacy Scale to Predict Precursors of Health Behavior Change

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

What is a good medical decision? A research agenda guided by perspectives from multiple stakeholders

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

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