The unintended impact of smoking-risk information on concerns about radon: A randomized controlled trial.
Joshua M GoldJillian O'Rourke StuartKelsey C ThiemR William FieldJeannette Fernandez-BacaPaul D WindschitlPublished in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2018)
People reading health-risk information contextualize their risk relative to the risk of others. For people at midlevel risk, concern and related reactions prompted by a health message may be dampened when the message includes information about others who are more at risk. In the case of radon and smoking risks, the inclusion of smoking information can reduce the impact that radon messages have on nonsmokers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).