Repression-sensitization and response to public information: null findings from a pilot survey.
A brief repression-sensitization scale was included in a mail survey of response to public information designed to help people save water and mitigate a water shortage. Hypotheses predicting repressers, moderate scorers, and sensitizers differ in recall and use of the information were rejected, even though respondents rated water shortage as an important matter that could affect them.
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Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley 80631, USA.
D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010467:Perceptual Defense; D011594:Psychometrics; D012095:Repression-Sensitization; D014881:Water Supply