Katie M Abrams

Datos Biográficos

ID4460997
NOMBREKatie M Abrams
NOMBRESKatie M
APELLIDOAbrams
FIRMAABRAMS K M
AFILIACIONESColorado State University
ORCID0000-0001-5210-6593
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS66
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • Air Aware

    Channing Bice, Andrew A Anderson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Communication…2025

    Outdoor workers face increasing health risks from air pollution, however most public health guidance emphasizes moving indoors, a strategy often unavailable to this workforce. This field report describes the co-design, implementation, and early evaluation of Air Aware, a workplace health communication campaign developed with outdoor workers in Fort Collins, Colorado. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and informed by worker insights o…

  • Shaping Camper Behavior to Protect Wildlife

    Katie M Abrams, Alia M Dietsch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2025

    Wildlife seeking human food in campgrounds creates persistent management challenges in national parks. This study examined how a social marketing intervention, based on a behavior change model, influenced campers to responsibly manage food and other items that might attract wildlife. We made 5,458 observations of campsites across four national parks using a quasi-experimental design to compare behavior in treatment and control groups, in parks wi…

  • Development to distribution

    Open AccessLucy Chalgren, Andrew A Anderson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Manufactured home communities in the US Mountain West face increasing amounts of exposure to wildfire smoke, magnifying existing environmental health disparities. This study explores a co-creation approach to air quality messaging that is grounded in social cognitive theory and draws from environmental communication research. We examined how manufactured home community experiences, across eight distinct communities, shape the development of local…

  • From Self to Society

    Kaiya A Tamlyn, Veronica Champine et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2025Referencias: 5

  • Encouraging Safe Wildlife Viewing in National Parks

    Open AccessKatie M Abrams, Kirsten M Leong et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2020

    Seeing wildlife in natural habitat is an exciting and powerful experience for national park visitors but is risky for visitors and wildlife alike. National parks have long used educational approaches to inspire visitors toengage in conservation behavior and protect themselves from harm. With record visitation in recent years, national parks must hone their communication strategies that support wildlife conservation and reduce wildlife-caused inju…

  • Communicating Sensitive Scientific Issues

    Open AccessKatie M Abrams, Thais M Zimbres et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2015Referencias: 8

    In demands for transparency in livestock production, how should the industry deal with communicating the sensitive topic of slaughter? This study examined the different effects of livestock slaughter transparency (via video) on slaughter and transparency attitudes based on people’s animal value orientation and the effects on the clarity and comfort of euphemisms. Findings indicated the video increased slaughter acceptance among all animal value o…

  • Ignorance is bliss. How parents of preschool children make sense of front-of-package visuals and claims on food

    Open AccessKatie M Abrams, Caitlin Evans et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015Citada por: 18Referencias: 20

  • Data Richness Trade-Offs Between Face-to-Face, Online Audiovisual, and Online Text-Only Focus Groups

    Open AccessKatie M Abrams, Zongyuan Wang et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2014Citada por: 39Referencias: 10

    This study offers an examination of data richness (i.e., topic-related data, topic unrelated data, researcher ratings of data richness, word count, and linguistic characteristics of data richness) trade-offs between face-to-face (FTF), online text-only and online audiovisual focus group mediums. Two focus group sessions were held for each type of medium. Data were analyzed using systematic content analysis and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. F…

  • Naturally confused

    Open AccessKatie M Abrams, Courtney Meyers et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2009Citada por: 9Referencias: 1