Memorable media messages of mental illness and implications for policy support: examining the influences of racial ingroup/outgroup recall.

Introduction: It is vital to understand how memorable media representations of mental illness influence perceptions about, and policies affecting, people managing mental illness.

Method: Utilizing an experiment, this study empirically examines how ingroup/outgroup racial identity recall of those managing mental health conditions may condition respondents' perceptions of mental illness more broadly, including support for allocating mental health resources.

Results: Findings suggest that the ingroup/outgroup racial identity recall of a memorable media message significantly predicts broader culpability judgments of people managing mental illness and support for mental health-related policies.

Developing and testing health warnings about alcohol and risk for breast cancer: Results from a national experiment with young adult women in the United States.

Background: This study sought to identify effective health warnings about alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk among young adult female participants.

Methods: We tested a pool of health warnings in a national pilot study. We used the most effective designs from the pilot in the main experiment where young (ages 21-29) U.