FACTS TELL, STORIES SELL? ASSESSING THE AVAILABILITY HEURISTIC AND RESISTANCE AS COGNITIVE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE PERSUASIVE EFFECTS OF VACCINATION NARRATIVES

Facts Tell, Stories Sell? Assessing the Availability Heuristic and Resistance as Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Persuasive Effects of Vaccination Narratives

Online vaccine-critical sentiments are often expressed in appealing personal narratives, whereas therizinosaurus jouet vaccine-supporting information is often presented in a non-narrative, expository mode describing scientific facts.In two experiments, we empirically test whether and how these different formats impact the way in which readers proce

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Genetic Polymorphisms in Endothelin-1 as Predictors for Long-Term Survival and the Cardiac Index in Patients Undergoing On-Pump Cardiac Surgery.

Genetic variants within the endothelin-1 gene (EDN1) have been associated with several cardiovascular diseases and may act as genetic prognostic markers.Here, we explored the overall relevance of EDN1 polymorphisms for long-term survival in patients undergoing on-pump cardiac surgery.A prospectively collected cohort of 455 Caucasian patients who un

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