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Friday, March 16, 2012

press release: Association for Psychological Science - Checking off symptoms online affects our perceptions of risk (student study)



Checking off symptoms online affects our perceptions of risk

"You've been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A half-hour later, you're convinced it's nothing serious—or afraid you have cancer. More than 60 percent of Americans get their health information online, and a majority of those decide whether to see a doctor based on what they find. "Wow, this is an era of self-diagnosis," thought Arizona State University psychologist Virginia Kwan, learning that statistic. How might information accessed online affect individual health decisions?....."

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