Showing posts with label google health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google health. Show all posts
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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