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Frederick X. Gibbons
Researcher at University of Connecticut
Publications - 279
Citations - 26721
Frederick X. Gibbons is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social comparison theory & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 272 publications receiving 24283 citations. Previous affiliations of Frederick X. Gibbons include Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Iowa State University.
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Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.
Noel T. Brewer,Gretchen B. Chapman,Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard,Kevin D. McCaul,Neil D. Weinstein +5 more
TL;DR: The consistent relationships between risk perceptions and behavior, larger than suggested by prior meta-analyses, suggest that risk perceptions are rightly placed as core concepts in theories of health behavior.
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Individual differences in social comparison: Development of a scale of social comparison orientation
TL;DR: The Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure [INCOM] as mentioned in this paper is a measure of individual differences in social comparison orientation, which was developed to measure the tendency toward social comparison in two cultures: American and Dutch.
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Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field
TL;DR: The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed in this paper with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades, including classic social comparison theories, fear-affiliation theory, downward comparison theory, social comparison as social cognition and individual differences in social comparison.
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Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis With Contextual Moderation Effects
Gene H. Brody,Yi Fu Chen,Velma McBride Murry,Xiaojia Ge,Ronald L. Simons,Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard,Carolyn E. Cutrona +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between perceived racial discrimination and later conduct problems and depressive symptoms among 714 African American adolescents who were 10-12 years old at recruitment.
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A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model
TL;DR: The prototype willingness model of adolescent decision making as mentioned in this paper is a dual-process model designed specifically to address non-intentional but volitional adolescent risk behavior, and it has been applied to the study of adolescent risk behaviors.