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Pre-purchase search vs. web surfing: effects of internet motives and ad relevance on psychological processing of online ads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] An experiment (N=40) was conducted on the effects of two Internet motives - prepurchase search vs. Web-surfing on responses to banner ads. Pre-purchase ...
The rise and fall of fad diets: how the news media frame and represent the Atkins diet, 1972-2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The purpose of this research is to study how newspapers, an important outlet from which individuals seek health information, frame fad diets. This study examines coverage of the Atkins diet, one of the most popular fad ...