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'I Think I Do but I Don’t': Heightened (Breast) Cancer Concern as a Function of Availability Bias
| العنوان: | 'I Think I Do but I Don’t': Heightened (Breast) Cancer Concern as a Function of Availability Bias |
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| المؤلفون: | Aldo Aguirre-Camacho, Helena Gandía-Abellán, Judit Tirado-Muñoz |
| المصدر: | Women, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 201-215 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Psychology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurological diseases, heightened concern, availability bias, young women, Medicine, Psychology, BF1-990 |
| الوصف: | Background: Women report a heightened concern of (breast) cancer, relative to other chronic conditions. This experimental study investigated whether such heightened concern may be a function of availability bias. Methods: participants (N = 750; 100% female) were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions: in the recall condition, they were asked to name the health condition they feared most; in the recognition condition, they picked the disease they feared most out of a list of chronic conditions. Results: The probability of selecting cancer as the most frightening disease varied as a function of experimental condition χ2 (10) = 112.13, p < 0.001. Participants in the recall condition were almost twice as likely to select cancer as the most frightening disease (N = 240, 59.10%) as those in the recognition condition (N = 121, 35.20%), who most frequently selected neurological diseases as the most threatening. The majority of participants believed that cancer was the disease receiving the most media attention (86.27%) (prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), and the one accounting for the highest number of deaths among Spanish females (63.50%). Conclusions: altogether, these results provide experimental evidence that availability bias may partly account for misperceptions and a heightened fear of cancer, which may narrow the scope of women’s information-seeking and health-preventive behaviors. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2673-4184 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4184/4/2/15; https://doaj.org/toc/2673-4184 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/women4020015 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/61ca1ae806b546e9b47f0930613e1afc |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.61ca1ae806b546e9b47f0930613e1afc |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 26734184 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/women4020015 |