Tailoring Narration for Distinct Audiences in Emerging Adulthood

Emerging Adulthood and Its Characteristics in Iranian University Students

Purpose: Emerging adulthood (EA) theory has been proposed as a distinct developmental period between adolescence and adulthood by Arnett in 2000. This construct is promptly embraced by contemporary scholars, and research on emerging adulthood increased over the past decade in many countries, but yet questions remained about the universality of emerging adulthood. This article is extracted from ...

How Audiences Form Attitudes about Emerging Technologies

How do people form opinions about scientific issues? It is, suggests Dietram A Scheufele, unrealistic to expect people to sift through masses of information to draw up a reasoned conclusion. We are mostly ‘cognitive misers’, drawing upon a minimum amount of information. What is crucial is how an issue is ‘framed’ – the context in which it is communicated and how it fits with people’s pre-existi...

Communicating about microbicides with women in mind: tailoring messages for specific audiences

INTRODUCTION Current HIV prevention options are unrealistic for most women; however, HIV prevention research has made important strides, including on-going development of antiretroviral-based vaginal microbicide gels. Nevertheless, social-behavioural research suggests that women's ability to access and use new HIV prevention technologies will be strongly influenced by a range of socio-cultural,...

A Gradual Transition: Emerging Adulthood

Positive Development and Resilience in Emerging Adulthood

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