Information overload

Assessing the impact of the public nutrition information environment: Adapting the cancer information overload scale to measure diet information overload

**Objective:** A growing body of research suggests that exposure to too much information – particularly contradictory information that characterizes much health-related information – can lead to feeling overwhelmed. This construct has been conflated …

Fatalism and exposure to health information from the media: examining the evidence for causal influence

Fatalistic attitudes have a negative impact on a broad variety of health behaviors and behavioral determinants of health. A growing body of research has documented an association between media exposure and fatalism; however, scholarship has not been …