Motivating Government Officials to Implement Evidence-Based Practices Through Messages of Resolving Uncertainty or Self-Affirmation

• In Event: Poster Session: Governance and Public Administration

Brief Overview

Using message framing in e-mail messages to government officials to encourage them to use a policy database, we will evaluate whether a message regarding resolving uncertainty or self-affirmation is more effective in increasing database usage.

Author

• Steven Theodore Torgesen, Brigham Young University