Evan K Perrault
Biographic Data
| ID | 126838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan K Perrault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrault |
| SIGNATURE | PERRAULT E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3227-1804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Can emojis replace the embrace? Evidence from an experiment
Through a 10-condition experiment, participants imagined their grandmother died and then imagined receiving either a hug from a project partner or a text message containing varying frequencies of hug emojis (up to 20). Between 1–5 hug emojis provided similar levels of support quality as a real hug, while sending 20 hug emojis offered the lowest support quality, and was rated the least appropriate response. The average number of emojis participant…
Evidence of a parent premium in the classroom
Evidence of a motherhood penalty and fatherhood premium has been found in academia regarding pay and publication rates. This research sought to determine if this trend also applied to students’ perceptions of their professors via a 2 (professor: male, female) × 3 (reason: none, personally sick, child sick) × 3 (time: cancel once, cancel a second time, cancel a third time) mixed experiment, where time was the within-subjects factor, and the profes…
Quality Conversation Can Increase Daily Well-Being
The associations among the frequency and quality of social interactions and in-the-moment and global well-being have been well-documented. Fewer studies explore whether the content of social interactions is associated with well-being using experimental methods. Drawing from the communicate bond belong theory, seven candidate communication episodes and behaviors were identified. In three studies, participants ( N Study 1 = 347, N Study 2 = 310, N …
The Effects of Safe Zone Badges in Physicians’ Online Biographies
Earning digital badges to showcase a person’s expertise or knowledge are becoming increasingly popular. A healthcare provider’s displaying of a Safe Zone badge within their online profile may offer prospective patients a cue as to the kind of care they might receive if they selected that particular provider. Prior research indicates LGBTQ+ individuals are looking for these types of cues within providers’ biographies to make their selections. A be…
Nonverbal communication training
Smiling versus resting B**ch face
Resting b**ch face (RBF) is described as an unintentional angry facial expression that is evaluated negatively and usually attributed to women. A 2 (smiling/RBF) x 2 (female/male provider) online experiment, guided by expectancy violations theory, investigated whether U.S. adults’ perceptions of a healthcare provider, medical care quality, and likelihood to make another appointment would be impacted by the provider’s facial expression and sex. Re…
Physicians Disclosing Religion in Online Biographies
Probing the Effects of Normative Beliefs, Attitude Strength, and Attitude Certainty on Opinion Expression Behavior
The reported study investigated the effects of normative factors and metacognitions on opinion expression behavior. It sought to add to the knowledge base by probing the extent to which they operate additively or non-additively. Participants were placed in an online opinion environment and given the choice about whether and how to express something. Perceived minority opinion status, trait-like fear of social isolation, situationally-dependent be…
When Doctors Swear, Do Patients Care? Two Experiments Examining Physicians Cursing in the Presence of Patients
Swearing in everyday conversation has become more normalized in recent years; but less certain, however, is how accepting Americans are when a doctor swears in their presence. Two online experiments (Study 1: n = 497; Study 2: n = 1,224) were conducted with US participants to investigate the impact of a doctor swearing in the course of examining a patient's infected wound (i.e., "You've got a lot of nasty [shit/stuff] in there that we're going to…
The influence of physician use of analogies on patient understanding
Health information can be difficult to understand, and physician analogies might enhance patient understanding. The present study investigated if physician analogies enhance participants' objective and perceived understanding, and perceptions of clarity. The experiment consisted of a 2 (familiar/unfamiliar health condition) x 4 (no analogies, diagnosis analogies, treatment analogies, both analogies) design with a within-subjects component of deli…
Impact of Information Exposure on Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Preventative Behaviors at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
This online survey took place on March 7, 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Participants (n = 698) completed an online survey in which they were asked to reflect on their mediated and interpersonal information consumption, in addition to reporting on risk perceptions, general efficacy perceptions, and preventative behaviors specific to COVID-19 in the past seven days. Participant age and chronic condition status…
Concise Consent Forms Appreciated—Still Not Comprehended
As informed consent documents have historically gotten lengthier, recent revisions to federal Common Rule guidelines now require consent forms that are "concise" and presented in ways that "facilitate comprehension." The current research sought to apply these guidelines by developing a consent process for an online study that was only 71 words and also allowed participants a choice to either continue directly to the study or learn more about the …
Finding Common Ground
U.S. mothers' behaviors and preferences when choosing physicians for their families
We performed an online study of 320 U.S. mothers to determine how this group, generally regarded as the "Chief Medical Officers" of their families, find physicians for their families. We also aimed to uncover mothers' information preferences with the goal of helping health care systems improve the content they offer. Mothers responded how they chose their last family medicine physician, and the level of importance they placed on various types of …
Seeking Ways to Inform the Uninformed
Participants often do not read consent forms in social science research. This is not surprising, especially for online studies, given they do not typically offer greater risk than what is encountered in daily life. However, if no one is reading, are participants really informed? This study used previous research to craft experimentally manipulated consent forms utilizing different visual presentations (e.g., greater use of line spacing, bullets, …
Informed Consent—Uninformed Participants
As informed consent forms continue to lengthen, are these lengthening forms helping to create better informed participants? The aim of this research was to determine whether the length of consent forms affected reading frequency and comprehension, and to provide recommendations on how to improve consent forms in the social sciences so they are more likely to be read. A quasi-experiment was conducted using actual consent forms at two liberal arts …
Seeking Ways to Inform the Uninformed
Participants often do not read consent forms in social science research. This is not surprising, especially for online studies, given they do not typically offer greater risk than what is encountered in daily life. However, if no one is reading, are participants really informed? This study used previous research to craft experimentally manipulated consent forms utilizing different visual presentations (e.g., greater use of line spacing, bullets, …
Informed Consent—Uninformed Participants
As informed consent forms continue to lengthen, are these lengthening forms helping to create better informed participants? The aim of this research was to determine whether the length of consent forms affected reading frequency and comprehension, and to provide recommendations on how to improve consent forms in the social sciences so they are more likely to be read. A quasi-experiment was conducted using actual consent forms at two liberal arts …
Finding Common Ground
Informed Consent—Uninformed Participants
As informed consent forms continue to lengthen, are these lengthening forms helping to create better informed participants? The aim of this research was to determine whether the length of consent forms affected reading frequency and comprehension, and to provide recommendations on how to improve consent forms in the social sciences so they are more likely to be read. A quasi-experiment was conducted using actual consent forms at two liberal arts …
U.S. mothers' behaviors and preferences when choosing physicians for their families
We performed an online study of 320 U.S. mothers to determine how this group, generally regarded as the "Chief Medical Officers" of their families, find physicians for their families. We also aimed to uncover mothers' information preferences with the goal of helping health care systems improve the content they offer. Mothers responded how they chose their last family medicine physician, and the level of importance they placed on various types of …
Seeking Ways to Inform the Uninformed
Participants often do not read consent forms in social science research. This is not surprising, especially for online studies, given they do not typically offer greater risk than what is encountered in daily life. However, if no one is reading, are participants really informed? This study used previous research to craft experimentally manipulated consent forms utilizing different visual presentations (e.g., greater use of line spacing, bullets, …
Concise Consent Forms Appreciated—Still Not Comprehended
As informed consent documents have historically gotten lengthier, recent revisions to federal Common Rule guidelines now require consent forms that are "concise" and presented in ways that "facilitate comprehension." The current research sought to apply these guidelines by developing a consent process for an online study that was only 71 words and also allowed participants a choice to either continue directly to the study or learn more about the …
Finding Common Ground
Impact of Information Exposure on Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Preventative Behaviors at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
This online survey took place on March 7, 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Participants (n = 698) completed an online survey in which they were asked to reflect on their mediated and interpersonal information consumption, in addition to reporting on risk perceptions, general efficacy perceptions, and preventative behaviors specific to COVID-19 in the past seven days. Participant age and chronic condition status…
Probing the Effects of Normative Beliefs, Attitude Strength, and Attitude Certainty on Opinion Expression Behavior
The reported study investigated the effects of normative factors and metacognitions on opinion expression behavior. It sought to add to the knowledge base by probing the extent to which they operate additively or non-additively. Participants were placed in an online opinion environment and given the choice about whether and how to express something. Perceived minority opinion status, trait-like fear of social isolation, situationally-dependent be…
When Doctors Swear, Do Patients Care? Two Experiments Examining Physicians Cursing in the Presence of Patients
Swearing in everyday conversation has become more normalized in recent years; but less certain, however, is how accepting Americans are when a doctor swears in their presence. Two online experiments (Study 1: n = 497; Study 2: n = 1,224) were conducted with US participants to investigate the impact of a doctor swearing in the course of examining a patient's infected wound (i.e., "You've got a lot of nasty [shit/stuff] in there that we're going to…
The influence of physician use of analogies on patient understanding
Health information can be difficult to understand, and physician analogies might enhance patient understanding. The present study investigated if physician analogies enhance participants' objective and perceived understanding, and perceptions of clarity. The experiment consisted of a 2 (familiar/unfamiliar health condition) x 4 (no analogies, diagnosis analogies, treatment analogies, both analogies) design with a within-subjects component of deli…
Nonverbal communication training
Smiling versus resting B**ch face
Resting b**ch face (RBF) is described as an unintentional angry facial expression that is evaluated negatively and usually attributed to women. A 2 (smiling/RBF) x 2 (female/male provider) online experiment, guided by expectancy violations theory, investigated whether U.S. adults’ perceptions of a healthcare provider, medical care quality, and likelihood to make another appointment would be impacted by the provider’s facial expression and sex. Re…
Physicians Disclosing Religion in Online Biographies
The Effects of Safe Zone Badges in Physicians’ Online Biographies
Earning digital badges to showcase a person’s expertise or knowledge are becoming increasingly popular. A healthcare provider’s displaying of a Safe Zone badge within their online profile may offer prospective patients a cue as to the kind of care they might receive if they selected that particular provider. Prior research indicates LGBTQ+ individuals are looking for these types of cues within providers’ biographies to make their selections. A be…
Can emojis replace the embrace? Evidence from an experiment
Through a 10-condition experiment, participants imagined their grandmother died and then imagined receiving either a hug from a project partner or a text message containing varying frequencies of hug emojis (up to 20). Between 1–5 hug emojis provided similar levels of support quality as a real hug, while sending 20 hug emojis offered the lowest support quality, and was rated the least appropriate response. The average number of emojis participant…
Evidence of a parent premium in the classroom
Evidence of a motherhood penalty and fatherhood premium has been found in academia regarding pay and publication rates. This research sought to determine if this trend also applied to students’ perceptions of their professors via a 2 (professor: male, female) × 3 (reason: none, personally sick, child sick) × 3 (time: cancel once, cancel a second time, cancel a third time) mixed experiment, where time was the within-subjects factor, and the profes…
Quality Conversation Can Increase Daily Well-Being
The associations among the frequency and quality of social interactions and in-the-moment and global well-being have been well-documented. Fewer studies explore whether the content of social interactions is associated with well-being using experimental methods. Drawing from the communicate bond belong theory, seven candidate communication episodes and behaviors were identified. In three studies, participants ( N Study 1 = 347, N Study 2 = 310, N …
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (8 works) · Perception (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works) · Alternative medicine (3 works) · Communication (3 works)