It has to be first-hand: The effect of first-person testimonials in medical communication on recipients’ emotions and memory

Figures & data

Table 1. Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) for DBS-related emotions indicated by recipients (N = 111)

	Valence of DBS-related emotions
	Positive	Negative
Information presented from first person patient perspective	4.01 (1.79)	4.31 (2.25)
Information presented from third person patient perspective	4.78 (2.07)	3.59 (2.00)
Positively valenced information presented	5.50 (1.71)	2.55 (1.31)
Negatively valenced information presented	3.29 (1.54)	5.34 (1.92)

Figure 1. Unstandardized coefficients (b) and standard errors (SE) of bootstrapping analyses of the effect of narrative perspective on memory for negative DBS-related contents via elicited negative emotions.