R
Robert A. C. Ruiter
Researcher at Maastricht University
Publications - 305
Citations - 10953
Robert A. C. Ruiter is an academic researcher from Maastricht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 278 publications receiving 8962 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. C. Ruiter include Boston University & Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach.
Gerjo Kok,Nell H. Gottlieb,Gjalt-Jorn Peters,Patricia Dolan Mullen,Guy S. Parcel,Robert A. C. Ruiter,Maria E. Fernandez,Christine Markham,L. Kay Bartholomew +8 more
TL;DR: The IM taxonomy of behaviour change methods and its potential to be developed into a coding taxonomy are introduced and a minimal set of intervention characteristics that may be reported when intervention descriptions and evaluations are published are recommended.
Journal ArticleDOI
Scary warnings and rational precautions: A review of the psychology of fear appeals.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of fear arousal on precautionary motivation and action are reviewed and it seems likely that fear arousal is less important in motivating precautionary action than perceptions of action effectiveness and self-efficacy.
Journal ArticleDOI
Threatening communication: a critical re-analysis and a revised meta-analytic test of fear appeal theory
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of six studies that satisfied the inclusion criteria clearly showed a significant interaction between threat and efficacy, such that threat only had an effect under high efficacy, and efficacy only had aeffect under high threat.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sixty years of fear appeal research: Current state of the evidence
TL;DR: It is concluded that coping information aimed at increasing perceptions of response effectiveness and especially self-efficacy is more important in promoting protective action than presenting threatening health information aimed in increasing risk perceptions and fear arousal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Intervention mapping: protocol for applying health psychology theory to prevention programmes
TL;DR: Intervention Mapping describes a protocol that provides guidelines and tools for the selection of theoretical foundations and underpinnings of health promotion programmes, for the application of theory, and for the translation of theory in actual programme materials and activities.