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Comment
. 2018 Jun;12(2):147-150.
doi: 10.1080/17437199.2018.1448292. Epub 2018 Mar 20.

Investigating belief falsehood. Fear appeals do change behaviour in experimental laboratory studies. A commentary on Kok et al. (2018)

Benjamin X White  1 , Dolores Albarracín  1
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Investigating belief falsehood. Fear appeals do change behaviour in experimental laboratory studies. A commentary on Kok et al. (2018)

Benjamin X White et al. Health Psychol Rev. 2018 Jun.
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Conflicts of Interest. The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose

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Figure 1.
Forest Plot of High Fear vs. No Fear Control for Between-Group Behavior Change (d)
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Figure 2. Meta-regression of Behavior Change on Reported Fear
Random-effect model of univariate relation of between-group comparisons for High Fear vs. No Fear Control for Behavior Change and High Fear vs. No Fear Control for Difference in Fear (B = .357, 95%CI:[0.073,0.641]; k = 10; adj-R2 = .473; Residual I2 = 94%).
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