Effects of Scanning Health News Headlines on Trust in Science: An Emotional Framing Perspective.
Effects of Scanning Health News Headlines on Trust in Science: An Emotional Framing Perspective.
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扫描健康新闻头条对科学信任的影响：情感框架视角。
作者：
Robin L. Nabi;Christopher M. Dobmeier;Chris L Robbins;Debora Pérez Torres;Nathan Walter
这项研究植根于情绪框架模型（EFM），探讨了如何通过健康新闻标题扫描唤起希望、恐惧和烦恼，以及这些情绪如何影响对新闻和医学机构的看法以及健康行为意图。美国成年人样本（N = 327）被分配到预期与不同情绪相关的四种标题框架条件之一（积极的未来框架-希望；威胁框架-恐惧/焦虑；逆转框架-烦恼；和控制中立），然后询问他们的情绪状态、对科学和新闻的信任以及与健康相关的行为意图。总体而言，在所有情况下，健康新闻标题比任何其他情绪都产生更多的希望，而积极的未来框架标题比其他框架标题更能激发希望。反过来，感受到希望会产生对新闻和科学的更大信任，对医学突破和治疗的更高期望，以及参与预防性健康行为的更大意愿。感到焦虑有边际积极效益，而感到烦恼则对兴趣结果产生负面影响。值得注意的是，在积极的未来/希望条件下，感受情绪调节了标题框架与结果的关系。这些发现为 EFM 提供了一些支持，并表明扫描充满特定情绪框架的标题可以通过它们唤起的情绪影响重要的健康相关结果。我们讨论这些发现的理论和实践意义。
Rooted in the emotions-as-frames model (EFM), this research examines how hope, fear, and annoyance are evoked through health news headline scanning, and how these emotions influence perceptions of news and medical science institutions as well as health behavioral intentions. A sample of U.S. adults (N = 327) were assigned to one of four headline framing conditions expected to associate with different emotions (positive future frame-hope; threat frame-fear/anxiety; reversal frame-annoyance; and control-neutral) and then asked about their emotional states, trust in science and news, and health-related behavioral intentions. Overall, health news headlines generated more hope than any other emotion across all conditions, and positive future-framed headlines evoked more hope than other framed headlines. Felt hope, in turn, generated greater trust in news and science, higher expectations of medical breakthroughs and cures, and greater intention to engage in preventative health behaviors. Felt anxiety had marginal positive benefits whereas felt annoyance negatively impacted the outcomes of interest. Notably, felt emotion mediated the headline frame-outcome relationships in the positive future/hope condition. These findings offer some support for the EFM and demonstrate that scanning headlines imbued with specific emotional frames can influence important health-related outcomes through the emotions they evoke. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implication of these findings.