Laura Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4996295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9651-4131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients
Unconditional cash transfers are a popular poverty reduction approach and may influence behavioral risk factors for chronic disease outcomes through economic and psychological pathways. Few studies have used qualitative interviews to identify the mechanisms through which cash transfers delivered in a health care context might influence the health of people living with chronic diseases in the United States. We conducted a pilot randomized controll…
Point-of-sale sugar-sweetened beverage warning posters v . control posters were associated with reductions in school store sugar-sweetened beverage purchases made by Guatemalan adolescents
Objective: We examined whether point-of-sale warning posters, compared with control posters, reduced Guatemalan adolescents’ purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at school stores. Design: We used a difference-in-differences approach (4-week baseline and 4-week treatment). Our primary analysis compared two schools assigned to an intervention warning poster to one school that displayed a control poster. Based on purchase transaction data, t…
A Normative Assessment of Parental Political Socialization
Adopting a normative democratic theory framework, this project assesses the degree to which parents and guardians maximized the political socialization opportunities afforded by the 2024 U.S. presidential debates. A three-step communication process involving debate exposure, intergenerational co-consumption, and intergenerational discussion is offered as a socialization ideal. Data collected during two waves of a national probability-based panel …
Not All Norm Information is the Same
Norm information in media can predict individuals’ norm perceptions and, ultimately, their behavior. Little research has examined how descriptive norm information manifests in media and impacts beliefs in the real world. Previously, using automated content analysis, we measured and examined longitudinal trends in two types of descriptive norm information, individual use depictions and population norms, pertaining to tobacco and e-cigarette use ac…
Digitization Is Not Decolonization
A year ago, the South African Cabinet approved the National Policy of the Digitization of Arts, Culture, and Heritage. With a focus on digitizing the country's heritage resources for preservation, access, and management of ownership, this act is emblematic of a broader trend conflating digitization of Africa's cultural heritage collections with decolonization. Yet, by examining how one of the continent's oldest museums documented its ethnographic…
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes
In today’s complex media environment, does media coverage influence youth and young adults’ (YYA) tobacco use and intentions? We conceptualize the “public communication environment” and effect mediators, then ask whether over time variation in exogenously measured tobacco media coverage from mass and social media sources predicts daily YYA cigarette smoking intentions measured in a rolling nationally representative phone survey (N = 11,847 on 1,1…
The impact of Covid-19 quarantine measures on the mental health of families
COVID-19 is shaping all aspects of life throughout the world. The unexpected number of people who have been infected with and died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is evidence that the pandemic has affected families and societies. The strong shock wave that has resulted in the international response has focused more on medical rather than psychosocial interventions. Little has been written or studied about the impact of COVID-19 on families. T…
Do Longitudinal Trends in Tobacco 21-Related Media Coverage Correlate with Policy Support? an Exploratory Analysis Using Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods
Media coverage can impact support for health policies and, ultimately, compliance with those policies. Prior research found consistent, high support for Tobacco 21 policies, which raise the minimum legal age of tobacco purchase to 21, among adults and nonsmoking youth. However, a recent study found support (i.e., agreement with the statement: "The legal age to buy tobacco cigarettes should be increased from 18 to 21") among 13-20-year-old smokers…
Caritas in social work
We adopted caritas as a way to support students’ inherent inclination to care about others and to support their genuine care and concern for the clients they will see. Our aim was to explore how students are using learning resources to socially construct a concept of caritas. Students were asked to explain in a family case study how social work services motivated by caritas might be distinguished from the services of a social worker who did not a…
Toward an Aggregate, Implicit, and Dynamic Model of Norm Formation
Media content can shape people’s descriptive norm perceptions by presenting either population-level prevalence information or descriptions of individuals’ behaviors. Supervised machine learning and crowdsourcing can be combined to answer new, theoretical questions about the ways in which normative perceptions form and evolve through repeated, incidental exposure to normative mentions emanating from the media environment. Applying these methods, t…
Care and rehabilitation services to child victims of abuse in the United Arab Emirates
Validating the Hornik & Woolf approach to choosing media campaign themes
Hornik and Woolf (1999) proposed using cross-sectional survey data to prioritize beliefs to address with communication campaign messages. The empirical component of the approach combines evidence of (1) association of beliefs with intentions and (2) current level of beliefs to calculate a 'percentage to gain' as the potential promise of a belief. However, the method relies on cross-sectional data; its conclusions are open to challenge. Here, a pa…
Association Between Initial Use of e-Cigarettes and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Importance: The public health implications of e-cigarettes depend, in part, on whether e-cigarette use affects the risk of cigarette smoking. Objective: To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies that assessed initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking. Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, the 2016 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 22nd Annual Meeting abstracts,…
Predictive Validity of an Empirical Approach for Selecting Promising Message Topics
Several message topic selection approaches propose that messages based on beliefs pretested and found to be more strongly associated with intentions will be more effective in changing population intentions and behaviors when used in a campaign. This study aimed to validate the underlying causal assumption of these approaches which rely on cross-sectional belief-intention associations. We experimentally tested whether messages addressing promising…
Validating the Hornik & Woolf approach to choosing media campaign themes
Hornik and Woolf (1999) proposed using cross-sectional survey data to prioritize beliefs to address with communication campaign messages. The empirical component of the approach combines evidence of (1) association of beliefs with intentions and (2) current level of beliefs to calculate a 'percentage to gain' as the potential promise of a belief. However, the method relies on cross-sectional data; its conclusions are open to challenge. Here, a pa…
Care and rehabilitation services to child victims of abuse in the United Arab Emirates
Predictive Validity of an Empirical Approach for Selecting Promising Message Topics
Several message topic selection approaches propose that messages based on beliefs pretested and found to be more strongly associated with intentions will be more effective in changing population intentions and behaviors when used in a campaign. This study aimed to validate the underlying causal assumption of these approaches which rely on cross-sectional belief-intention associations. We experimentally tested whether messages addressing promising…
Association Between Initial Use of e-Cigarettes and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Importance: The public health implications of e-cigarettes depend, in part, on whether e-cigarette use affects the risk of cigarette smoking. Objective: To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies that assessed initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking. Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, the 2016 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 22nd Annual Meeting abstracts,…
Validating the Hornik & Woolf approach to choosing media campaign themes
Hornik and Woolf (1999) proposed using cross-sectional survey data to prioritize beliefs to address with communication campaign messages. The empirical component of the approach combines evidence of (1) association of beliefs with intentions and (2) current level of beliefs to calculate a 'percentage to gain' as the potential promise of a belief. However, the method relies on cross-sectional data; its conclusions are open to challenge. Here, a pa…
Toward an Aggregate, Implicit, and Dynamic Model of Norm Formation
Media content can shape people’s descriptive norm perceptions by presenting either population-level prevalence information or descriptions of individuals’ behaviors. Supervised machine learning and crowdsourcing can be combined to answer new, theoretical questions about the ways in which normative perceptions form and evolve through repeated, incidental exposure to normative mentions emanating from the media environment. Applying these methods, t…
Care and rehabilitation services to child victims of abuse in the United Arab Emirates
Caritas in social work
We adopted caritas as a way to support students’ inherent inclination to care about others and to support their genuine care and concern for the clients they will see. Our aim was to explore how students are using learning resources to socially construct a concept of caritas. Students were asked to explain in a family case study how social work services motivated by caritas might be distinguished from the services of a social worker who did not a…
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes
In today’s complex media environment, does media coverage influence youth and young adults’ (YYA) tobacco use and intentions? We conceptualize the “public communication environment” and effect mediators, then ask whether over time variation in exogenously measured tobacco media coverage from mass and social media sources predicts daily YYA cigarette smoking intentions measured in a rolling nationally representative phone survey (N = 11,847 on 1,1…
The impact of Covid-19 quarantine measures on the mental health of families
COVID-19 is shaping all aspects of life throughout the world. The unexpected number of people who have been infected with and died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is evidence that the pandemic has affected families and societies. The strong shock wave that has resulted in the international response has focused more on medical rather than psychosocial interventions. Little has been written or studied about the impact of COVID-19 on families. T…
Do Longitudinal Trends in Tobacco 21-Related Media Coverage Correlate with Policy Support? an Exploratory Analysis Using Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods
Media coverage can impact support for health policies and, ultimately, compliance with those policies. Prior research found consistent, high support for Tobacco 21 policies, which raise the minimum legal age of tobacco purchase to 21, among adults and nonsmoking youth. However, a recent study found support (i.e., agreement with the statement: "The legal age to buy tobacco cigarettes should be increased from 18 to 21") among 13-20-year-old smokers…
Not All Norm Information is the Same
Norm information in media can predict individuals’ norm perceptions and, ultimately, their behavior. Little research has examined how descriptive norm information manifests in media and impacts beliefs in the real world. Previously, using automated content analysis, we measured and examined longitudinal trends in two types of descriptive norm information, individual use depictions and population norms, pertaining to tobacco and e-cigarette use ac…
Digitization Is Not Decolonization
A year ago, the South African Cabinet approved the National Policy of the Digitization of Arts, Culture, and Heritage. With a focus on digitizing the country's heritage resources for preservation, access, and management of ownership, this act is emblematic of a broader trend conflating digitization of Africa's cultural heritage collections with decolonization. Yet, by examining how one of the continent's oldest museums documented its ethnographic…
A Normative Assessment of Parental Political Socialization
Adopting a normative democratic theory framework, this project assesses the degree to which parents and guardians maximized the political socialization opportunities afforded by the 2024 U.S. presidential debates. A three-step communication process involving debate exposure, intergenerational co-consumption, and intergenerational discussion is offered as a socialization ideal. Data collected during two waves of a national probability-based panel …
Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients
Unconditional cash transfers are a popular poverty reduction approach and may influence behavioral risk factors for chronic disease outcomes through economic and psychological pathways. Few studies have used qualitative interviews to identify the mechanisms through which cash transfers delivered in a health care context might influence the health of people living with chronic diseases in the United States. We conducted a pilot randomized controll…
Point-of-sale sugar-sweetened beverage warning posters v . control posters were associated with reductions in school store sugar-sweetened beverage purchases made by Guatemalan adolescents
Objective: We examined whether point-of-sale warning posters, compared with control posters, reduced Guatemalan adolescents’ purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at school stores. Design: We used a difference-in-differences approach (4-week baseline and 4-week treatment). Our primary analysis compared two schools assigned to an intervention warning poster to one school that displayed a control poster. Based on purchase transaction data, t…
Psychology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Social science (4 works)