How Calling Cancer a 'Fight' or 'Battle' Can Harm Patients
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
TIMEHow Calling Cancer a 'Fight' or 'Battle' Can Harm PatientsTIMEUsing hostile, warlike metaphors to describe cancer may make patients less likely to take steps toward certain treatments, new research suggests. The study, which will be published in the January issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ...