Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination

Fischer, Florian; Carow, Franziska; Gillitzer, Stefanie

Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination

Fischer F, Carow F, Gillitzer S (2021)
Frontiers in Public Health 9: 649507.

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.649507

URN

urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29548394

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Fischer, Florian; Carow, Franziska; Gillitzer, Stefanie^UniBi

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Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften > AG 3 Epidemiologie & International Public Health

Abstract / Bemerkung

Until now, health communication has largely failed to debunk fears and caveats related to vaccination. This study aims to investigate the effects of different text types used in health communication in an experimental study design. A neutrally formulated text was compared to a humorous text using the formula of a fairytale. Overall, the study indicates no additional value in using the humorous format as an innovative and target-group-oriented approach to inform readers about scientific evidence related to vaccination. Although the effects of the two text types do not differ, the credibility of the neutrally formulated text was much more likely to be judged as high. This indicates that the perception of credibility is not the only criterion in health communication leading to knowledge gains and changes in health-related attitudes and behaviors. Copyright © 2021 Fischer, Carow and Gillitzer.

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Zeitschriftentitel

Frontiers in Public Health

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Art.-Nr.

649507

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Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)

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2296-2565

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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2954839

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Fischer F, Carow F, Gillitzer S. Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination. Frontiers in Public Health. 2021;9: 649507.

Fischer, F., Carow, F., & Gillitzer, S. (2021). Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 649507. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.649507

Fischer, Florian, Carow, Franziska, and Gillitzer, Stefanie. 2021. “Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination”. Frontiers in Public Health 9: 649507.

Fischer, F., Carow, F., and Gillitzer, S. (2021). Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination. Frontiers in Public Health 9:649507.

Fischer, F., Carow, F., & Gillitzer, S., 2021. Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination. Frontiers in Public Health, 9: 649507.

F. Fischer, F. Carow, and S. Gillitzer, “Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination”, Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9, 2021, : 649507.

Fischer, F., Carow, F., Gillitzer, S.: Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination. Frontiers in Public Health. 9, : 649507 (2021).

Fischer, Florian, Carow, Franziska, and Gillitzer, Stefanie. “Humor and Fear - Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Experimental Evidence on Humor Appeals in Health Communication Related to Childhood Vaccination”. Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): 649507.

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