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Communicating science-based recommendations with memorable and actionable guidelines

Rebecca K. Ratner and Jason Riis
PNAS September 16, 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13634-13641; first published September 15, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320649111
Rebecca K. Ratner
aDepartment of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1815; and
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bDepartment of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340
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  1. Edited by Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and accepted by the Editorial Board June 18, 2014 (received for review November 5, 2013)

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vol. 111 no. Supplement 4 13634-13641
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320649111
PubMed: 
25225363

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue September 16, 2014.
  • Published first September 15, 2014.

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  1. Rebecca K. Ratnera,1 and
  2. Jason Riisb
  1. aDepartment of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1815; and
  2. bDepartment of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340
  1. Edited by Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and accepted by the Editorial Board June 18, 2014 (received for review November 5, 2013)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: rratner{at}rhsmith.umd.edu.
  • Author contributions: R.K.R. and J.R. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This paper results from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “The Science of Science Communication II,” held September 23–25, 2013, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The complete program and video recordings of most presentations are available on the NAS website at www.nasonline.org/science-communication-II.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. D.A.S. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.

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