A5005128192- Media Influence and Health
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Media in Health Education
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
University of Missouri
2017-2025
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2013-2016
The purpose of this study is to examine psychological reactance in response graphic cigarette warning labels and strengthen expand on the current literature by using validated measures. Young adults ( N = 435) were randomly assigned a package featuring image or no image. Utilizing both structural equation modeling multivariate analyses, results indicate that are associated with freedom threat perceptions directly indirectly. In addition, exposure resulted higher perceptions, negative...
Abstract The open science (OS) movement has advocated for increased transparency in certain aspects of research. Communication is taking its first steps toward OS as some journals have adopted guidelines codified by another discipline. We find this pursuit troubling prioritizes openness while insufficiently addressing essential ethical principles: respect persons, beneficence, and justice. Some recommended practices increase the potential harm marginalized participants, communities,...
News frames can influence how people think about disease. In a pair of studies, we demonstrate contemporary news outlets frame cancer and exposure to common affect audiences' perceptions those who suffer from cancer. First, examine the current landscape usage in online news, employing ideally suited depiction health We compare our results with previously published research this domain. Second, employ these multimessage experiment assess framing on individuals' cancer, interventions, conclude...
Observers of democratic polities decry a seeming increase in social and political polarization. This article outlines the conditions under which Internet-based news exposure can facilitate Analyses data from nationally representative United States panel study reveal that frequency consumption over Internet widen disagreements between Democrats Republicans wide range issues. The results few signs similar effect for disagreement linked to race income. These findings point some possible...
The Internet is one of the fastest growing news sources for many worldwide (Pew Research Center's Project Excellence in Journalism, 2011), and cancer frequently consumed form online health information (Google, Inc., 2007). This content analysis (n = 862) retrieved from four most frequented websites describes trends regarding specific cancers, stages continuum, types articles. In general, treatment received attention news. Breast each cancer, followed by digestive genitourinary cancers....
Nearly half of all U.S. adults will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their developmental trajectory, and college students may particularly vulnerable to experience distress. Despite its prevalence, public perception about remains obscured by misinformation social stigma. Scholars have long recognized the role that mass media play cultivating perpetuating this The purpose study was survey (N = 359) explore how prime stereotypic conceptions subsequently influence mechanisms...
As researchers took note of the emerging ubiquity new media, they predicted how digital technologies would facilitate an increasingly fragmented audience. New media (i.e. with online capabilities) were observed to possess previously unmatched levels content options and audience control over consumption. Many have since that current landscape has not reached anticipated degrees fragmentation, leading questions about potentially mitigating factors. In this study, we utilize network analytical...
Forming ties with media consumers and investing effort in knowing what they do happens to them is a common reason many people use media. The one-sided nature of these parasocial experiences, however, suggests that may be using them, part, based on egocentric motivations. In this study, model motivations for engagement relationships offered as means enhancing the scholarly understanding who most likely form strongest mediated experience various benefits consequences therein. Additionally,...
Racial and ethnic relations in America are a form of social interaction about which changing perceptions could have important consequences. Current research examining the nature discrete situations entertainment content on television is lacking. This study was conducted with objective obtaining an updated account state interpersonal portrayals between characters different racial/ethnic backgrounds popular prime time programs broadcast television. Specifically, we analyzed prime-time program...
Muslims are routinely and distortedly associated with danger terrorist activity in the media. Such depictions have clear implications for social behaviors oriented toward this group, however, explicitly interpersonal media effects of nature need enhanced examination. In study, we assess potential positive to enhance interaction inclinations consumers, using psychological theory explore underlying mechanisms (i.e., narrative transportation, perceptions stigma, prejudicial attitudes)....
Popular film contains an abundance of information pertaining to identity and stigma attributions popularly linked with those experiencing mental health concerns. However, this domain remains under-examined regard representations, notably as they intersect other social identities. Thirty years the most popular films emphasizing were content analyzed for purpose obtaining a contemporary assessment stigmatizing potential representation patterns, notably, extending beyond established...
Abstract. Investigating the role of identity in mediated experiences involves a great deal complexity. However, media psychologists all too often explore antecedents and consequences ways that less than optimally grapple with this In essay, we build on critical effects (CME) approach to offer innovative theorize about intersectionality within psychology scholarship. We apply elaborate an intersectional advance our understanding three key areas: selectivity, use, effects. provide...
Abstract How is it that some social movement organizations (SMOs) receive more media attention, and are generally perceived as influential, than others? The purpose of this study to examine the antecedents moral resources (media visibility peer influence) among SMOs in 1980s US national labor policy domain. Using theories communication, movements, effects, research argues acquisition influenced by accumulation other types resources. Our path model showed organizational such visibility,...
One of the most potent ways to communicate stigma is associating a group with peril. In this study, we examine how different forms peril representations influence specific patterns interpersonal inclinations. We explore key social perceptions warmth and competence may serve as explanatory mediating mechanisms. Although African Americans Arab-Muslims similarly share close mediated associations threat, an empirical examination interaction intentions toward both groups differ under congruent...
Prior research demonstrates an influence of culpability framing on news consumers’ perceptions about, and willingness to provide support for, those managing illness. Framing this sort has typically focused the effect frames a particular health context (e.g. cancer). It is necessary examine how three which are overwhelmingly represented in could be uniquely influencing about illness number disparate contexts. Specifically, we explore nature frame as it relates reports regarding alcoholism,...
In recent years, police brutality has attracted the attention of American public and media. Using frameworks cognitive accessibility transportation, this study analyzes how a victim's race can affect news readers' evaluations brutality. Results show that those who read about Black victim thought was more important issue than exposed to White indirectly felt less safe in their community. Transportation perceptions justice mediated effect. Those experienced transportation into article victim,...
This study interrogates the nature by which media perpetuates and potentially preempts stigma about military-related posttraumatic stress. Indeed, addressing of mental illness is critical to facilitating veteran comfort in seeking needed health care. Therefore, authors explored how messages veterans experiencing stress (PTS) influenced viewed themselves, other PTS overall support for government policy intervention. An experimental design was used assess veterans' perceptions are affected...
Entertainment media is observed to influence perceptions toward those managing major health conditions. In this study, a U.S. representative sample Qualtrics survey (N = 599) conducted how routine exposure illnesses of notable public concern comparatively associated with potentially disparate mediated contact outcomes on stereotype content model and reasoned-action approach-related social inclinations. Supporting premises, evidence suggests largely prosocial related entertainment (e.g....