Zachary B Massey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1644360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary B Massey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary B |
| FAMILY NAME | Massey |
| SIGNATURE | MASSEY Z B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3484-5768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Finally, some hope. Communicating systemic aspects of climate‐change mitigation
Climate communication, including from museums, often advocates individual lifestyle changes, and while these are necessary, the biggest emissions reductions will come from the systemic transition to renewable energy sources. The importance of this systemic change and its attainability has been under‐communicated in the public discourse, although bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have increased their focus on it. We tested …
Examining Discussion Networks of a Nonviolent Immigrant Religious Group
This study used social network analysis to examine discussion networks within an immigrant religious organization consistent with a nonviolent ideological group. Specifically, participants from a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery listed members with whom they discussed religious issues and whom they perceived influential, and members’ attitudes and behaviours towards nonviolence were measured. A valued exponential random graph modelling examined whet…
Reactance, Mortality Salience, and Skin-Cancer Prevention Among Young Adults
206) using skin cancer prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom-limiting language: freedom-limiting, autonomy-supportive) independent-group design, we tested the terror management health model and integrated its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance. We used a sample of young adults because they are most at risk for excessive tanning. Consistent with the study predictions about proximal defenses, mor…
Exploring the effects of cannabis health warnings on protective health intentions among US adults in legal recreational states
When Cigarette Smoking Meets Covid-19
Growing evidence indicates that communicating the combined risk of smoking and COVID-19 encourages smoking cessation. Guided by the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), we examined how perceived threats of smoking and COVID-19 independently and interactively predicted danger control responses (i.e., quit intentions and COVID-19-protective behavioral intentions) and fear control responses (i.e., fear and fatalism). We also explored the direct a…
General and Device-Specific Reasons for ENDS Use
The reasons that adults choose to use ENDS are complex and sometimes related to both ENDS as a category and as specific ENDS product types. Regulations and public communication campaigns should reflect their ultimate objective and consider both general and specific motivations when attempting to achieve public health objectives
Examining reactions to smoking and Covid-19 risk messages
A New Scale for Measuring Identity Insecurity
Although theory and research have discussed identity insecurity as a factor that influences intercultural communication behaviors, no reliable measure has been presented to capture this construct. This paper reports results from three studies designed to test and validate a new measure of identity insecurity. Study 1 (N = 173) included item generation and exploratory factor analysis, revealing five unidimensional identity insecurity factors, term…
Meeting the (Trans)parent
This study examined the role parasocial contact with a transgender character on an online TV show (Transparent) may play in reducing prejudice toward transgender people. An experiment was conducted with participants randomly assigned to view either a video depicting a transgender character, or a non-transgender character portrayed by the same actor. Results were consistent with predictions derived from the intergroup contact mediation model for e…
It’s Cool, Modifying and All, but I Don’t Want Anything Blowing Up on Me
Modifications of ENDS are ongoing and evolving among users and should be considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory decision-makers as product authorization reviews are conducted and product standards are developed
Effects of modified risk tobacco product claims on consumer comprehension and risk perceptions of Iqos
The Food and Drug Administration should ensure that consumers understand what 'switching completely' means in an MRC and recognize that some language features may mislead consumers into believing that a product reduces the risk of diseases not mentioned in an MRC
Serious Psychological Distress Is Associated with Higher Intentions to Quit among Smokers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has increased the rates of serious psychological distress (SPD) among the general population. However, the SPD among smokers during the pandemic remains understudied. In a parent study, 1,004 U.S. adult smokers with and without SPD were randomized to view messages about COVID-19 risk, smoking risk, combined COVID-19 and smoking risk, or control. Outcomes were smoking quit intentions and COVID-19 protective behavior intentions. We analyze…
Iqos debut in the USA
Following the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) April 2019 authorisation on their premarket tobacco product application,1 Philip Morris (PM) has officially launched its heated tobacco product, IQOS, in the USA in October 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. IQOS consists of a charger and a holder, into which tobacco sticks, called ‘HeatSticks’ in the USA, are inserted (figure 1). The blade in the holder heats tobacco in a HeatStick, producing an aerosol.…
Meta-Analysis on Mediated Contact and Prejudice
This paper presents a meta-analysis of 79 cases (N = 21,857) testing the effectiveness of mediated intergroup contact on prejudice. Positive mediated contact decreased (r = −.23; 95% CI, −.29 to −.17), whereas negative mediated contact increased prejudicial attitudes (r = .31; 95% CI, .24 to .38) and intergroup anxiety and empathy were both significant mediators of these relationships. Furthermore, the data revealed no significant differences bet…
Testing terror management health model and integrating its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance
Two experiments (Nstudy1 = 203; Nstudy2 = 177), using STD prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom threat: high, low) design, tested the Terror Management Health Model and integrated its predictions with the Theory of Psychological Reactance to examine how reactance and mortality salience interact to affect risk communication. In Study 1, mortality salience mitigated freedom-threat perceptions but only at low threat …
Case studies on interethnic conflict
Meta-Analysis on Mediated Contact and Prejudice
This paper presents a meta-analysis of 79 cases (N = 21,857) testing the effectiveness of mediated intergroup contact on prejudice. Positive mediated contact decreased (r = −.23; 95% CI, −.29 to −.17), whereas negative mediated contact increased prejudicial attitudes (r = .31; 95% CI, .24 to .38) and intergroup anxiety and empathy were both significant mediators of these relationships. Furthermore, the data revealed no significant differences bet…
Testing terror management health model and integrating its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance
Two experiments (Nstudy1 = 203; Nstudy2 = 177), using STD prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom threat: high, low) design, tested the Terror Management Health Model and integrated its predictions with the Theory of Psychological Reactance to examine how reactance and mortality salience interact to affect risk communication. In Study 1, mortality salience mitigated freedom-threat perceptions but only at low threat …
Case studies on interethnic conflict
A New Scale for Measuring Identity Insecurity
Although theory and research have discussed identity insecurity as a factor that influences intercultural communication behaviors, no reliable measure has been presented to capture this construct. This paper reports results from three studies designed to test and validate a new measure of identity insecurity. Study 1 (N = 173) included item generation and exploratory factor analysis, revealing five unidimensional identity insecurity factors, term…
Case studies on interethnic conflict
Testing terror management health model and integrating its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance
Two experiments (Nstudy1 = 203; Nstudy2 = 177), using STD prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom threat: high, low) design, tested the Terror Management Health Model and integrated its predictions with the Theory of Psychological Reactance to examine how reactance and mortality salience interact to affect risk communication. In Study 1, mortality salience mitigated freedom-threat perceptions but only at low threat …
Iqos debut in the USA
Following the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) April 2019 authorisation on their premarket tobacco product application,1 Philip Morris (PM) has officially launched its heated tobacco product, IQOS, in the USA in October 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. IQOS consists of a charger and a holder, into which tobacco sticks, called ‘HeatSticks’ in the USA, are inserted (figure 1). The blade in the holder heats tobacco in a HeatStick, producing an aerosol.…
Meta-Analysis on Mediated Contact and Prejudice
This paper presents a meta-analysis of 79 cases (N = 21,857) testing the effectiveness of mediated intergroup contact on prejudice. Positive mediated contact decreased (r = −.23; 95% CI, −.29 to −.17), whereas negative mediated contact increased prejudicial attitudes (r = .31; 95% CI, .24 to .38) and intergroup anxiety and empathy were both significant mediators of these relationships. Furthermore, the data revealed no significant differences bet…
Meeting the (Trans)parent
This study examined the role parasocial contact with a transgender character on an online TV show (Transparent) may play in reducing prejudice toward transgender people. An experiment was conducted with participants randomly assigned to view either a video depicting a transgender character, or a non-transgender character portrayed by the same actor. Results were consistent with predictions derived from the intergroup contact mediation model for e…
It’s Cool, Modifying and All, but I Don’t Want Anything Blowing Up on Me
Modifications of ENDS are ongoing and evolving among users and should be considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory decision-makers as product authorization reviews are conducted and product standards are developed
Effects of modified risk tobacco product claims on consumer comprehension and risk perceptions of Iqos
The Food and Drug Administration should ensure that consumers understand what 'switching completely' means in an MRC and recognize that some language features may mislead consumers into believing that a product reduces the risk of diseases not mentioned in an MRC
Serious Psychological Distress Is Associated with Higher Intentions to Quit among Smokers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has increased the rates of serious psychological distress (SPD) among the general population. However, the SPD among smokers during the pandemic remains understudied. In a parent study, 1,004 U.S. adult smokers with and without SPD were randomized to view messages about COVID-19 risk, smoking risk, combined COVID-19 and smoking risk, or control. Outcomes were smoking quit intentions and COVID-19 protective behavior intentions. We analyze…
General and Device-Specific Reasons for ENDS Use
The reasons that adults choose to use ENDS are complex and sometimes related to both ENDS as a category and as specific ENDS product types. Regulations and public communication campaigns should reflect their ultimate objective and consider both general and specific motivations when attempting to achieve public health objectives
Examining reactions to smoking and Covid-19 risk messages
A New Scale for Measuring Identity Insecurity
Although theory and research have discussed identity insecurity as a factor that influences intercultural communication behaviors, no reliable measure has been presented to capture this construct. This paper reports results from three studies designed to test and validate a new measure of identity insecurity. Study 1 (N = 173) included item generation and exploratory factor analysis, revealing five unidimensional identity insecurity factors, term…
When Cigarette Smoking Meets Covid-19
Growing evidence indicates that communicating the combined risk of smoking and COVID-19 encourages smoking cessation. Guided by the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), we examined how perceived threats of smoking and COVID-19 independently and interactively predicted danger control responses (i.e., quit intentions and COVID-19-protective behavioral intentions) and fear control responses (i.e., fear and fatalism). We also explored the direct a…
Reactance, Mortality Salience, and Skin-Cancer Prevention Among Young Adults
206) using skin cancer prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom-limiting language: freedom-limiting, autonomy-supportive) independent-group design, we tested the terror management health model and integrated its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance. We used a sample of young adults because they are most at risk for excessive tanning. Consistent with the study predictions about proximal defenses, mor…
Exploring the effects of cannabis health warnings on protective health intentions among US adults in legal recreational states
Finally, some hope. Communicating systemic aspects of climate‐change mitigation
Climate communication, including from museums, often advocates individual lifestyle changes, and while these are necessary, the biggest emissions reductions will come from the systemic transition to renewable energy sources. The importance of this systemic change and its attainability has been under‐communicated in the public discourse, although bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have increased their focus on it. We tested …
Examining Discussion Networks of a Nonviolent Immigrant Religious Group
This study used social network analysis to examine discussion networks within an immigrant religious organization consistent with a nonviolent ideological group. Specifically, participants from a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery listed members with whom they discussed religious issues and whom they perceived influential, and members’ attitudes and behaviours towards nonviolence were measured. A valued exponential random graph modelling examined whet…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (6 works) · Media Influence and Health (4 works) · Perception (4 works)