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Running in the family or swimming in the gene pool: discriminating between family history and genetic risk in illness perceptions.

Journal of health psychology - 1 Nov 2007

Riggs Abigail L, Giuliano Traci A

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The present study sought to understand how the genetic component of a disease affects individual's risk perceptions. Specifically, participants read three scenarios that asked them to imagine that they had either genetic, ambiguous, of no family history for a hypothetical disease and to imagine that their parents' lifestyles were either healthy or unhealthy. As expected, when participants received an ambiguous...

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PMID: 17956968
DOI: 10.1177/1359105307082452

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