Kathryn Thier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4606589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Thier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Thier |
| SIGNATURE | THIER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3806-8951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Incorporating moral foundations into persuasive conversations: The cases of public support for agricultural biotechnology research and future pandemic preparedness
Public support for science is critical to managing emerging societal risks, particularly in contested scientific issues involving moral tensions. Incorporating moral concerns into persuasive messages may therefore represent a promising strategy for strengthening such support. Drawing on moral foundations theory, this study examined how moral framing shaped public support for science through two online experiments with U.S. adults across distinct …
A New Journalism for a New Climate: Is Solutions Journalism the Solution
Little is known about how journalists can engage audiences when providing news about the existential threat of climate change. This experiment tests several solutions stories against problem-oriented stories and an irrelevant control to explain how shifting the news frame may encourage climate policy support. Findings build on research showing solutions journalism increases positive affect and decreases negative affect, although these effects did…
Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis
News warning about climate risks has not typically included information about how society can respond, but journalism about credible efforts to address climate change is becoming more prevalent. To understand how news employing this emerging approach is framed we undertook an inductive quantitative content analysis of climate solutions journalism. Cluster analysis of 244 text-based climate solutions news stories published in U.S.-based outlets re…
Beliefs in Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among Unvaccinated Black Americans: Prevalence, Socio-Psychological Predictors, and Consequences
Health-related misinformation is a major threat to public health and particularly worrisome for populations experiencing health disparities. This study sets out to examine the prevalence, socio-psychological predictors, and consequences of beliefs in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation among unvaccinated Black Americans. We conducted an online national survey with Black Americans who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 (N = 800) between February…
Persuasive Effects of Temporal Framing in Health Messaging: A Meta-Analysis
Americans’ support for climate justice
Identifying Major Components of Solutions-Oriented Journalism: A Review to Guide Future Research
This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature about solutions journalism and constructive journalism to unpack their components, as such emerging solutions-oriented approaches gain steam in journalistic practice and scholarly examination. We find that solutions-oriented journalism differs from problem-oriented journalism in its qualities, frames, scope, purpose, orientation, boundaries, and journalists’ reporting processes. While solutions-or…
Health misinformation: What it is, why people believe it, how to counter it
Despite growing concerns and rapidly expanding research about health misinformation, answers to some fundamental questions remain unclear. Among the open questions are the definition of health misinformation (what is health misinformation?), the psychological drivers of susceptibility to health misinformation (why do people believe it?) and effective interventions for reducing the impact of health misinformation (how to counter it?). In this in-d…
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation
News media are the public’s primary source about risks such as climate change, but traditional journalistic approaches to climate change have failed to build support for collective social responses. Solutions journalism, an emerging practice focused on credible stories about responses to societal problems, may offer an alternate approach. From an online experiment with a convenience sample of U.S. undergraduates (N = 348), we found that solutions…
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation
Creating engagement with solutions visuals: Testing the effects of problem-oriented versus solution-oriented photojournalism
An increasing number of news organizations are reporting stories about responses to persistent societal problems, a reporting form known as solutions journalism. While this type of reporting practice is typically text-based, visual reporting can also be solutions journalism. Photojournalism theory and practice pose particular insights for advancing academic understanding of solutions journalism. This study uses an experiment to examine effects of…
A narrative solution: The relationship between solutions journalism, narrative transportation, and news trust
Lack of trust is a paramount problem facing journalism. Solutions reporting, which focuses on credible responses to societal problems, could help improve news trust. In addition, narrative journalism has been associated with several positive outcomes. This study tested the novel idea that solutions stories and narrative transportation can positively impact news trust and story-specific beliefs. A 2 (story frame) × 3 (story topic) between-subjects…
A narrative solution: The relationship between solutions journalism, narrative transportation, and news trust
Lack of trust is a paramount problem facing journalism. Solutions reporting, which focuses on credible responses to societal problems, could help improve news trust. In addition, narrative journalism has been associated with several positive outcomes. This study tested the novel idea that solutions stories and narrative transportation can positively impact news trust and story-specific beliefs. A 2 (story frame) × 3 (story topic) between-subjects…
Creating engagement with solutions visuals: Testing the effects of problem-oriented versus solution-oriented photojournalism
An increasing number of news organizations are reporting stories about responses to persistent societal problems, a reporting form known as solutions journalism. While this type of reporting practice is typically text-based, visual reporting can also be solutions journalism. Photojournalism theory and practice pose particular insights for advancing academic understanding of solutions journalism. This study uses an experiment to examine effects of…
Creating engagement with solutions visuals: Testing the effects of problem-oriented versus solution-oriented photojournalism
An increasing number of news organizations are reporting stories about responses to persistent societal problems, a reporting form known as solutions journalism. While this type of reporting practice is typically text-based, visual reporting can also be solutions journalism. Photojournalism theory and practice pose particular insights for advancing academic understanding of solutions journalism. This study uses an experiment to examine effects of…
A narrative solution: The relationship between solutions journalism, narrative transportation, and news trust
Lack of trust is a paramount problem facing journalism. Solutions reporting, which focuses on credible responses to societal problems, could help improve news trust. In addition, narrative journalism has been associated with several positive outcomes. This study tested the novel idea that solutions stories and narrative transportation can positively impact news trust and story-specific beliefs. A 2 (story frame) × 3 (story topic) between-subjects…
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation
News media are the public’s primary source about risks such as climate change, but traditional journalistic approaches to climate change have failed to build support for collective social responses. Solutions journalism, an emerging practice focused on credible stories about responses to societal problems, may offer an alternate approach. From an online experiment with a convenience sample of U.S. undergraduates (N = 348), we found that solutions…
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation
Identifying Major Components of Solutions-Oriented Journalism: A Review to Guide Future Research
This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature about solutions journalism and constructive journalism to unpack their components, as such emerging solutions-oriented approaches gain steam in journalistic practice and scholarly examination. We find that solutions-oriented journalism differs from problem-oriented journalism in its qualities, frames, scope, purpose, orientation, boundaries, and journalists’ reporting processes. While solutions-or…
Health misinformation: What it is, why people believe it, how to counter it
Despite growing concerns and rapidly expanding research about health misinformation, answers to some fundamental questions remain unclear. Among the open questions are the definition of health misinformation (what is health misinformation?), the psychological drivers of susceptibility to health misinformation (why do people believe it?) and effective interventions for reducing the impact of health misinformation (how to counter it?). In this in-d…
Beliefs in Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among Unvaccinated Black Americans: Prevalence, Socio-Psychological Predictors, and Consequences
Health-related misinformation is a major threat to public health and particularly worrisome for populations experiencing health disparities. This study sets out to examine the prevalence, socio-psychological predictors, and consequences of beliefs in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation among unvaccinated Black Americans. We conducted an online national survey with Black Americans who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 (N = 800) between February…
Persuasive Effects of Temporal Framing in Health Messaging: A Meta-Analysis
Americans’ support for climate justice
A New Journalism for a New Climate: Is Solutions Journalism the Solution
Little is known about how journalists can engage audiences when providing news about the existential threat of climate change. This experiment tests several solutions stories against problem-oriented stories and an irrelevant control to explain how shifting the news frame may encourage climate policy support. Findings build on research showing solutions journalism increases positive affect and decreases negative affect, although these effects did…
Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis
News warning about climate risks has not typically included information about how society can respond, but journalism about credible efforts to address climate change is becoming more prevalent. To understand how news employing this emerging approach is framed we undertook an inductive quantitative content analysis of climate solutions journalism. Cluster analysis of 244 text-based climate solutions news stories published in U.S.-based outlets re…
Incorporating moral foundations into persuasive conversations: The cases of public support for agricultural biotechnology research and future pandemic preparedness
Public support for science is critical to managing emerging societal risks, particularly in contested scientific issues involving moral tensions. Incorporating moral concerns into persuasive messages may therefore represent a promising strategy for strengthening such support. Drawing on moral foundations theory, this study examined how moral framing shaped public support for science through two online experiments with U.S. adults across distinct …
Political science (8 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Media Influence and Health (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Law (3 works)