Matching Health Messages to Health Locus of Control Beliefs for Promoting Mammography Utilization
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PAMELA WILLIAMS-PIEHOTA, TAMERA R. SCHNEIDER, JUDITH PIZARRO, LINDA MOWAD and PETER SALOVEY* Department of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205; Department of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435; Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697; Cancer Information Service, Yale Cancer Center, 55 Church Street, Suite 400, New Haven, CT 06510-3014
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