Allison Earl studies the challenges of getting health information to people who need it. Her research looks at how people react defensively to information about their health and how to improve it. In this episode, she shares her research on people's tendency to avoid threatening health information and how simple meditation exercises can make people more open to these kinds of messages.

Some things that come up in this episode: 

• Targeting health information to specific groups makes people feel judged (Derricks & Earl, 2019)
• Rejecting information about stimatized health issues (Earl, Nisson, & Albarracín, 2015)
• Race disparities in attention to HIV-prevention information (Earl et al., 2016)
• Trigger warnings as a way to get people ready for emotional information (Gainsburg & Earl, 2018)
• Meditation makes people more open to threatening health information (Takahashi & Earl, 2020)

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