Affective and Cognitive Mediators of the Impact of Cigarette Warning Labels | Zendy

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Affective and Cognitive Mediators of the Impact of Cigarette Warning Labels

Author(s) -

Lydia F. Emery,

Daniel Römer,

Kaitlin M. Sheerin,

Kathleen Hall Jamieson,

Ellen Peters

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

nicotine and tobacco research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338

H-Index - 113

eISSN - 1469-994X

pISSN - 1462-2203

DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntt124

Subject(s) - feeling , worry , cognition , psychology , affect (linguistics) , perception , risk perception , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , communication , neuroscience

Research conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to select graphic warning labels for cigarette packs has been challenged as inadequate for demonstrating effects on smokers' beliefs about smoking. The present study tested the prediction that warnings alter risk perceptions and thoughts of quitting indirectly through a cognitive pathway (warning believability) and an affective pathway (worry about health), both of which are important for encouraging smokers to consider quitting.

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