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Fatalistic responses to different types of genetic risk information: exploring the role of self-malleability.

Psychology & health - 1 Feb 2010

Claassen Liesbeth, Henneman Lidewij, De Vet Riekie, Knol Dirk, Marteau Theresa, Timmermans Danielle

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Providing people with genetic risk information may induce a sense of fatalism, the belief that little can be done to reduce the risk. We postulated that fatalism is a function of health risk information and individual differences in self-perception. DNA-based risk information was hypothesised to generate more fatalism than risk information based on family history or non-genetic risk information. Moreover, people...

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PMID: 20391214
DOI: 10.1080/08870440802460434

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