Contribution of concrete cognition to emotion: neutral symptoms as elicitors of worry about cancer
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The relationship between worry about cancer and judged cancer risk was examined among 54 expatients who had been cured of breast cancer and 81 women with no history of cancer. Worry required both a perception of substantial risk and the presence of concrete perceptual cues. Worry promoters include visits to a physician and concrete, noncancerlike symptoms (e.g., fever, pain). Supporting analyses indicate that the symptom effects are not due to self-report biases or attributions of symptoms to cancer but are the result of a reminder process whereby vulnerability beliefs are aroused by somatic cues. Judged cancer risk was unrelated to affective cues, suggesting that across-time variation in worry about cancer reflects the onset and offset of symptom episodes rather than a shift in risk appraisals. Expatients were more worried overall than nonpatient controls. The results have implications for controlling disease worry and initiating preventive behaviors. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1989
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Predicting the perceived fairness of parental leave policies
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Survey data indicated that being of childbearing age, having children, and holding positive attitudes toward women were positively related to perceptions of parental-leave policy fairness. These findings supported the proposition from social justice theories that relation (similarity) to the object of resource distribution influences perceptions of fairness. The study also replicated the egocentric bias effect such that planning to bear children and expressing intent to take leave were positively related to perceptions of policy fairness. Policy-fairness perceptions were related to attitudes toward parental leave recipients (leave takers), and the data supported a mediation model in which fairness perceptions mediated the relation between similarity to, and attitudes toward, leave takers. The theoretical implications for theories of social justice and the practical implications for parental leave are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1991
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