Niels Haase

Universität Erfurt | UE · Institut für Psychologie

When people judge risk or the probability of a risky prospect, single case narratives can bias judgments when a statistical base-rate is also provided. In this work we investigate various methodological and procedural factors that may influence this narrative bias. We found that narratives had the strongest effect on a non-numerical risk measure, w...

The risk of an event generally relates to its expected severity and the perceived probability of its occurrence. In risk research, however, there is no standard measure for subjective probability estimates. In this study, we compared five commonly used measurement formats-two rating scales, a visual analog scale, and two numeric measures-in terms o...

Objective: Previous studies have shown that even when a statistical base-rate of vaccine adverse events (VAE) is provided, a small sample of single-case narratives influences vaccination risk perceptions and vaccination intentions, irrespective of various content characteristics. This study investigated whether this narrative bias is moderated by a...

This review introduces the concept of culture-sensitive health communication. The basic premise is that congruency between the recipient's cultural characteristics and the respective message will increase the communication's effectiveness. Culture-sensitive health communication is therefore defined as the deliberate and evidence-informed adaptation...

Immunization rates are below the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy established by the World Health Organization. One reason for this are anti-vaccination activists, who use the Internet to disseminate their agenda, frequently by publishing narrative reports about alleged vaccine adverse events. In health communication, the use of narrative in...

Background: As the number of individuals who search for health information in interactive online environments is increasing, patient networks deserve more scientific attention. Objective: To quantitatively examine if and how reading statistical and/or narrative information as typically displayed in patient networks (e.g., patientslikeme.com) aff...