John J Brooks

Biographic Data

ID3583217
NAMEJohn J Brooks
GIVEN NAMESJohn J
FAMILY NAMEBrooks
SIGNATUREBROOKS J J
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
ORCID0000-0001-5551-826X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A Content Analysis of Abortion Storylines on U.S. Streaming Services

    John J Brooks, Sapna Suresh et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2026

    Mediated representations of abortion have grown increasingly prominent in recent decades. Despite the potential for these depictions to influence attitudes toward reproductive rights, public opinion in the United States has remained largely static. To better understand how these representations may influence perceptions of reproductive healthcare, this study reports a theoretically-driven content analysis of narrative representations of abortion …

  • Identity Disclosure Timing Effects in Narratives Related to Transgender Individuals

    John J Brooks, Melanie C GreenARTICLEMedia Psychology2026

    When striving to promote acceptance of marginalized groups through persuasive narratives, past research suggests that delaying disclosure of a character’s stigmatized identity can facilitate narrative involvement and promote message-consistent outcomes. In the present studies, we apply this strategy to the context of transgender individuals through two experiments that compared narratives which disclosed the protagonist’s identity at different po…

  • From Punchlines to Punches

    Open AccessChristopher M Dobmeier, John J Brooks et al.ARTICLEJournalism & Mass Communication…2026

    A meta-analysis evaluated the persuasive effects of political satire and how such effects may differ between Horatian (light-hearted) and Juvenalian (acerbic) satire types. A synthesis of 33 studies ( N = 7,469) revealed that political satire is no more persuasive than serious news, but the data find several contingencies when distinguishing between satire types. Namely, satire type was found to interact with issue involvement and format, but not…

  • Narrative persuasion across the aisle

    Rebecca Tukachinsky Forster, Nathan Walter et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2024

  • The Chaffee principle

    Nathan Walter, Camille J Saucier et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the International…2024Cited by: 1References: 28

    Steven Chaffee stated that 'the most likely "effect" of communication...is further communication' (p. 72). The present study asks to what extent this offering, referred to as 'The Chaffee Principle,' is realized in extant communication research. A manual content analysis of two top-tier communication journals (N = 2,040) offers an assessment of empirical attention to a variety of communicative acts in mass, interpersonal, and mediated-interperson…

  • How Do We Put the Country Back Together?” Mitigating Affective Polarization Through Mediated Intergroup Contact

    John J Brooks, Christopher M Dobmeier et al.ARTICLEMass Communication & Society2024References: 20

    Affective polarization presents an ongoing threat to the political and social functioning of democracies as partisans increasingly dislike and distrust opposing partisans. Because engagement with political media is one way by which citizens understand partisan dynamics, we hypothesize that exposure to positive mediated intergroup contact via an entertainment narrative may be able to attenuate feelings of affective polarization—especially through …

  • Adult Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Content, Design, and Dissemination of Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescent-Centered PrEP Campaigns

    Open AccessJunye Ma, Christopher Owens et al.ARTICLESexuality Research and Social…2023Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The Effect of an Entertainment-Education Intervention on Reproductive Health of Young Women of Color

    Camille J Saucier, Sapna Suresh et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2022

    While teen pregnancy rates in the United States have been declining for decades, they remain the highest of all western countries. Within the U.S., Black and Latina teens experience disproportionate rates of unplanned pregnancy. Plan A is an entertainment-education video intervention that was developed to help address these disparities, in part by emphasizing the ability of young cisgender women to control when they become pregnant by using an ef…

  • Metacognitive approach to narrative persuasion

    Nathan Walter, Helena Bilandzic et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2021

    The current article tests the metacognitive proposition that the relative ease or difficulty with which narrative messages are processed can affect subsequent judgment. Challenging the assertion that experienced disfluency is mostly negative and undesirable, it is argued that disfluent (difficult-to-process) narratives are well-positioned to facilitate narrative persuasion when people hold value-laden beliefs. Using the controversial context of p…

  • Evaluating the Impact of Attempts to Correct Health Misinformation on Social Media

    Nathan Walter, John J Brooks et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2021

  • Prime‐time abortion on Grey's Anatomy

    Open AccessGretchen Sisson, Nathan Walter et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Sexual and…2021Cited by: 1References: 8

    These findings suggest that entertainment television can contribute to meaningful increases in viewers' knowledge about abortion, but that the potential for impact of entertainment-education is closely linked to episode content and moderated by state-level abortion policy

  • Parents' sensemaking processes in the identification of developmental delays and engagement with early intervention services

    Open AccessCourtney L Scherr, Hannah Getachew-Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020References: 44