@article{ref1, title="Mixed emotional appeals in emotional and danger control processes", journal="Health communication", year="2010", author="Carrera, Pilar and Munoz, Dolores and Caballero, Amparo", volume="25", number="8", pages="726-736", abstract="Negative emotional appeals do not always help to reduce risk behaviors. We report two studies about a new strategy based on the presentation of appeals with mixed sequential emotions (e.g., sadness/fear-joy/relief). Study 1 shows that a mixed message generates lower post-message discomfort than an exclusively negative message; moreover, in this first study, reported probability of performing the risk behavior, binge drinking, in the future is also lower in the mixed condition. Study 2 replicates these results and relates them to the extended parallel process model (EPPM) (Witte, 1992). Here, the mixed emotional message again generates lower post-message discomfort than the negative one, and participants are motivated to control the danger (response efficacy is evaluated more positively in the mixed condition).

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", language="en", issn="1041-0236", doi="10.1080/10410236.2010.521914", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2010.521914" }