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Gretchen B. Chapman
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 149
Citations - 11880
Gretchen B. Chapman is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vaccination & Behavior change. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 139 publications receiving 10048 citations. Previous affiliations of Gretchen B. Chapman include Georgetown University & University of Pennsylvania.
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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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Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action:
TL;DR: It is found that few randomized trials have successfully changed what people think and feel about vaccines, and those that succeeded were minimally effective in increasing uptake.
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Anchoring, Activation, and the Construction of Values
Gretchen B. Chapman,Eric Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: This work suggests that anchors affect judgments by increasing the availability and construction of features that the anchor and target hold in common and reducing the availability of features of the target that differ from the anchor.
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Temporal discounting and utility for health and money
TL;DR: In 3 experiments, choices for hypothetical amounts of future health and money showed that, contrary to normative discounted utility theory, the temporal discount rate, or annual percentage increase in value needed to offset a delay, differed for the 2 domains.
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Incorporating the Irrelevant: Anchors in Judgments of Belief and Value
Gretchen B. Chapman,Eric Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that groups who received larger numbers determined by a wheel of fortune gave higher estimates than groups that received lower numbers, demonstrating that irrelevant anchors influenced these estimates.