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The first involved 380 participants who read positive, negative and neutral messages about deserts.
Most of the cases of disagreement involve neutral messages.
We can also note that some of the datasets do not contain neutral messages.
Neutral messages showed to be even harder to detect by most methods.
Impact on Industry: Positive and neutral messages were convincingly more successful than negative messages in facilitating self-reported hearing protection behaviors among coal miners.
Results: Responses from 307 coal miners revealed that the positive or neutral messages generated significantly more self-reported hearing protection behaviors than the negative message.
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Later in the day, a top partner with Andersen testified that he considered a key piece of government evidence -- an e-mail note written by a lawyer for the firm to urge accountants working on the Enron matter to comply with its document retention and destruction policy -- to be "an absolutely neutral message," rather than an instruction to begin shredding.
Method: Participants were mailed postcards that featured either a positive, negative, or neutral message on the outside of the postcard and a message encouraging hearing protection behaviors on the inside.
On no-incentive and Baseline trials, a neutral message was provided during this time period ("Next Trial Coming Up").
Although we cannot say whether the message used had a detrimental effect (because there was no neutral message condition), our findings provide some indication that caution is needed when deciding whether and how to disseminate challenging health guidelines.
Although we did not compare to a neutral message control, such effects suggest that caution may be needed in applying self-affirmation with lower-risk individuals and challenging health recommendations.
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