Roxanne L Parrott
Biographic Data
| ID | 111787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxanne L Parrott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxanne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Parrott |
| SIGNATURE | PARROTT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Pennsylvania State University, Communication Arts & Sciences, University Park, PA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
134 scholarly articles This Encyclopedia has been compiled as an up-to-date and comprehensive theoretically guided work in health and risk communication. Research and practice dedicated to communicating about health and risk to lay audiences grows exponentially with the availability of scientific knowledge on the subject. This work seeks to ensure that what is communicated is not only scientifically accurate but also avoids any partial informatio…
Mental representations of HPV in Appalachia
Media coverage has emphasized human papillomavirus (HPV) as a vaccine-preventable, sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer. Appalachian undergraduate students ( N = 309, 50% female) were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV; analyses of mental representations were similar to content analyses of media coverage of HPV, suggesting media cultivation. Semantic network analysis revealed linkages between vaccine, disease causation and preventio…
Expressing Emotions as Evidence in Osteoporosis Narratives
This study examined the use of different narratives expressing positive or negative emotions, and varying the narrator's perspective on the arousal of discrete emotions, dominant cognitions, perceived evidence quality, and perceived message effectiveness related to osteoporosis behavioral intentions. Formative research led to the creation of narratives and selection of positive and negative emotions expressed. A 4 × 3 between-subjects posttest de…
Preconceptional health
The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States
The increase in public representation of the science-based concept “genetics” in the mass media might be expected to have a major impact on public understanding of the concept of “race.” A model of lay understandings of the role of genetics in the contemporary United States is offered based on focus group research, random digit dial surveys, and community based surveys. That model indicates that lay people identify race primarily by physical feat…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics
Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits
Competencies for the Health Communication Specialist of the 21st Century
This article reports the results of an expert working group convened to define competencies required to function effectively as a health communication specialist. Participants were surveyed before the working group meeting on a range of issues related to training master's-level public health communication specialists. Survey responses were used to initiate the discussion at a subsequent two-day working group meeting. Survey and working group resu…
Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits
Expressing Emotions as Evidence in Osteoporosis Narratives
This study examined the use of different narratives expressing positive or negative emotions, and varying the narrator's perspective on the arousal of discrete emotions, dominant cognitions, perceived evidence quality, and perceived message effectiveness related to osteoporosis behavioral intentions. Formative research led to the creation of narratives and selection of positive and negative emotions expressed. A 4 × 3 between-subjects posttest de…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
Mental representations of HPV in Appalachia
Media coverage has emphasized human papillomavirus (HPV) as a vaccine-preventable, sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer. Appalachian undergraduate students ( N = 309, 50% female) were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV; analyses of mental representations were similar to content analyses of media coverage of HPV, suggesting media cultivation. Semantic network analysis revealed linkages between vaccine, disease causation and preventio…
Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics
Competencies for the Health Communication Specialist of the 21st Century
This article reports the results of an expert working group convened to define competencies required to function effectively as a health communication specialist. Participants were surveyed before the working group meeting on a range of issues related to training master's-level public health communication specialists. Survey responses were used to initiate the discussion at a subsequent two-day working group meeting. Survey and working group resu…
Hope and Despair in Pandora's Box
African American and white women (N = 39) were interviewed about reproductive rewards and risks regarding genetics information and technologies. Analysis of their talk reflected several important themes. Emergent “reward” themes included the would-be parents' reproductive decision-making, preparation, and prevention. “Risk” themes, which were more predominant than reward themes, included genetic information as stress producing, “child-designing” …
Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics
Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits
The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States
The increase in public representation of the science-based concept “genetics” in the mass media might be expected to have a major impact on public understanding of the concept of “race.” A model of lay understandings of the role of genetics in the contemporary United States is offered based on focus group research, random digit dial surveys, and community based surveys. That model indicates that lay people identify race primarily by physical feat…
Preconceptional health
Mental representations of HPV in Appalachia
Media coverage has emphasized human papillomavirus (HPV) as a vaccine-preventable, sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer. Appalachian undergraduate students ( N = 309, 50% female) were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV; analyses of mental representations were similar to content analyses of media coverage of HPV, suggesting media cultivation. Semantic network analysis revealed linkages between vaccine, disease causation and preventio…
Expressing Emotions as Evidence in Osteoporosis Narratives
This study examined the use of different narratives expressing positive or negative emotions, and varying the narrator's perspective on the arousal of discrete emotions, dominant cognitions, perceived evidence quality, and perceived message effectiveness related to osteoporosis behavioral intentions. Formative research led to the creation of narratives and selection of positive and negative emotions expressed. A 4 × 3 between-subjects posttest de…
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
134 scholarly articles This Encyclopedia has been compiled as an up-to-date and comprehensive theoretically guided work in health and risk communication. Research and practice dedicated to communicating about health and risk to lay audiences grows exponentially with the availability of scientific knowledge on the subject. This work seeks to ensure that what is communicated is not only scientifically accurate but also avoids any partial informatio…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Political science (3 works)