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Now there’s proof for the “Angelina Jolie Effect”

Up to this point, it had only been a hypothesis: that celebrity firepower can definitively drive consumer health behavior in a certain direction. The case here concerns whether women wish to embark on a genetic hunting expedition to see if they are at “high risk” of developing a particular disease such as breast cancer, and the motivator in this case is Angelina Jolie.