Nicholas Waugh

Datos Biográficos

ID6695928
NOMBRENicholas Waugh
NOMBRESNicholas
APELLIDOWaugh
FIRMAWAUGH N
AFILIACIONESAlbany State University
ORCID0009-0006-0945-721X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Post-Alert Lexicon

    Jeannette Sutton, Hugh Walpole et al.ARTICLENatural Hazards Review2026

    Using a multiphased, mixed methods approach, grounded in theory on alerts and warnings, the Post-Alert Lexicon serves as a companion to the Warning Lexicon to provide evidence-based guidance on how to construct a postalert message for 45 hazards and missing person events. We draw from the results of quantitative content analyses of a census of postalert messages issued as Wireless Emergency Alerts from 2012 to 2022, and public message testing exp…

  • Missing information

    Lauren B Cain, Jeannette Sutton et al.ARTICLEPolice Practice and Research2026

    Missing and endangered person (MEP) alerts are a prominent messaging strategy used by law enforcement agencies in the United States to recover missing persons, with over 1,800 AMBER Alerts issued via the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system and nearly 40 similar alerts introduced by state legislatures for other groups of missing people. Despite their prevalent use, the contents of MEP alerts have not yet been empirically examined. Drawing from w…

  • What Does It Mean to Stand Out? How Visual Design and Presentation Affect Attention and Memory in a Warning Message

    Open AccessNicholas Waugh, Jeannette Sutton et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2025

    In emergency communication, it is essential to call attention to key information that can be interpreted quickly and remembered easily. Individuals possess a limited number of cognitive resources to allocate to message processing in an emergency. Because of this, they are more likely to allocate attention to messages they are motivated to care about or to message attributes that stand out. In this study, we focus on how warning messages are atten…

  • The Complete Message Is the Best Message

    Jeannette Sutton, Michele K Olson et al.ARTICLENatural Hazards Review2025

    Standardized messaging for alerts and warnings has been made possible through the use of the Warning Lexicon and workflow. The effectiveness of this approach to motivate protective action behaviors, in comparison with the current standard of practice, has not yet been tested. Using an experimental design to test the effectiveness of the Warning Lexicon, we tested three message types for five hazards: blackouts, law enforcement incidents, infectio…

  • The impact of hazard naming in Wireless Emergency Alerts

    Michele K Olson, Micki Olson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2025Referencias: 8

    Wireless Emergency Alerts are an important way people learn about impending threats. Yet, these messages typically lack information about the hazard that will endanger people. In this study, we examine how naming the hazard and its associated cues in a Wireless Emergency Alert influences people’s perceptions that help them make protective action decisions, including understanding, belief, personalization, deciding, response efficacy, and self-eff…

  • Message canceled, orders lifted

    Open AccessJeannette Sutton, Lauren B Cain et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2024

  • The Warning Lexicon

    Open AccessJeannette Sutton, Michele K Olson et al.ARTICLENatural Hazards Review2024

    Emergency managers and alert and warning originators require tools to build effective warning messages. The purpose of this research is to develop one such tool—a Warning Lexicon—that can be used to construct consistent warning messages for Wireless Emergency Alerts. Specifically, the Warning Lexicon systematically establishes a common set of statements about hazard impacts and their associated recommended protective actions that can be used to q…

  • Tweeting the Heat

    Open AccessMichele K Olson, Jeannette Sutton et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2023

    Heat communication interventions are an essential way that public safety organizations can reduce extreme heat consequences for at-risk groups. Although the aim of these interventions is typically behavior change, these organizations commonly assume that providing information about heat risks, impacts, vulnerable populations, and protective actions will lead individuals to protect themselves. However, behavior change is a complex process whereby …

  • Communicating about Extreme Heat

    Jeannette Sutton, Nicholas Waugh et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2023

    Climate trends indicate that extreme heat events are becoming more common and more severe over time, requiring improved strategies to communicate heat risk and protective actions. However, there exists a disconnect in heat-related communication from experts, who commonly include heat-related jargon (i.e., technical language), to decision-makers and the general public. The use of jargon has been shown to reduce meaningful engagement with and under…

  • Public perceptions of U.S. earthquake early warning post-alert messages

    Open AccessJeannette Sutton, M M Wood et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2023

  • Ember Alerts

    Erica D Kuligowski, Nicholas Waugh et al.ARTICLENatural Hazards Review2023

    When evacuation is necessary in a wildfire event, affected communities must be alerted and warned of the imminent danger and instructed on what to do to protect themselves. One channel available to message providers in the United States is Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) disseminated via the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). Recent wildfire events have shed light on the need to improve WEA strategies and messages when alerting …