Weinstein N D
J Human Stress. 1978 Mar;4(1):32-42. doi: 10.1080/0097840X.1978.9934975.
Interviews with 577 college students in New Jersey, a state with a high reported rate of cancer, were conducted to assess the ways in which they conceptualize this issue and to determine how they would react when offered an opportunity to obtain factual information about the cancer threat. Those who appeared to be most in need of information were found to be the least likely to seek it. Of students who were undecided whether or not living in the state would increase their chance of getting cancer, only 25.7 percent requested the information, compared to 49.1 percent of students who acknowledged the increased risk and 43.9 percent of those who denied the risk. Individuals who had not known previously about the high cancer rates were less likely to request information (37.9 percent) than those who had known (47.9 percent), and they used different arguments to justify their denial of risk. The specific arguments used by students to explain why they denied that there was a threat or why they planned to stay in the state in spite of the risk were generally unrelated to information seeking.
对新泽西州577名大学生进行了访谈，该州报告的癌症发病率很高，此次访谈旨在评估他们对这个问题的认知方式，并确定当有机会获取有关癌症威胁的事实信息时他们会作何反应。结果发现，那些似乎最需要信息的人最不可能去寻求信息。在不确定居住在该州是否会增加患癌几率的学生中，只有25.7%的人要求获取信息，相比之下，承认风险增加的学生中有49.1%，否认有风险的学生中有43.9%。以前不知道该州癌症发病率高的人比知道的人更不太可能要求获取信息（37.9%对47.9%），而且他们用不同的论据来为自己否认风险辩解。学生们用来解释他们为何否认存在威胁或为何尽管有风险仍计划留在该州的具体论据，通常与寻求信息无关。
