"Misfearing"--culture, identity, and our perceptions of health risks.

Rosenbaum, Lisa · N Engl J Med · 2014

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Abstract

Despite knowing that heart disease kills more women each year than all cancers combined, most women fear breast cancer far more - and their health-related behavior reflects this difference. If our sense of risk is less about fact than about feeling, how do we adjust it?

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