Prince Adu Gyamfi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6632762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prince Adu Gyamfi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prince Adu |
| FAMILY NAME | Gyamfi |
| SIGNATURE | GYAMFI P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0047-5359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discursive legitimation through strategic framing
Purpose An organization’s message design during crises is crucial to maintaining its legitimacy. This study extends the framing theory to analyze the strategies used by Ghana’s and Nigeria’s central banks to build discursive legitimacy during their respective financial crises. It also helps to decolonize our understanding of how central banks respond to crises and preserve their license to operate using evidence from two African countries. Design…
How Values Guide Trust
Guided by literature suggesting that value similarity shapes trust in scientific authorities managing technological risks, we examined how science-related values affect trust formation. Our experiment found that individual value orientations moderated the effects of scientific authorities’ value displays. They also affected how people weigh ability, benevolence, and integrity to establish trust. Individuals with high deference to scientific autho…
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…
Effective Communication during a Global Health Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing incessant disruption to the social and economic lives of societies. Public health and crisis communicators have recommended some best practices in crisis and emergency risk messaging for effective health messages during pandemics. Thus, this study utilized seven crisis and emergency risk messaging best practices to qualitatively analyze 14 speeches delivered by the Ghanaian President on the COVID-19 pandemic in th…
Comparative analysis of CNN coverage of weather-related disasters in USA, Japan, and India
Previous research studies have investigated news media coverage of weather-related disasters. However, little is known about how CNN, a broadcast enterprise with global reach, has covered and framed weather disasters happening in a Western country and an Asian country. Thus, the present study used a qualitative method to analyze how CNN covered and framed weather-related disasters in the USA, Japan, and India. Five news frames provided the theore…
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Effective Communication during a Global Health Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing incessant disruption to the social and economic lives of societies. Public health and crisis communicators have recommended some best practices in crisis and emergency risk messaging for effective health messages during pandemics. Thus, this study utilized seven crisis and emergency risk messaging best practices to qualitatively analyze 14 speeches delivered by the Ghanaian President on the COVID-19 pandemic in th…
Comparative analysis of CNN coverage of weather-related disasters in USA, Japan, and India
Previous research studies have investigated news media coverage of weather-related disasters. However, little is known about how CNN, a broadcast enterprise with global reach, has covered and framed weather disasters happening in a Western country and an Asian country. Thus, the present study used a qualitative method to analyze how CNN covered and framed weather-related disasters in the USA, Japan, and India. Five news frames provided the theore…
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…
How Values Guide Trust
Guided by literature suggesting that value similarity shapes trust in scientific authorities managing technological risks, we examined how science-related values affect trust formation. Our experiment found that individual value orientations moderated the effects of scientific authorities’ value displays. They also affected how people weigh ability, benevolence, and integrity to establish trust. Individuals with high deference to scientific autho…
Discursive legitimation through strategic framing
Purpose An organization’s message design during crises is crucial to maintaining its legitimacy. This study extends the framing theory to analyze the strategies used by Ghana’s and Nigeria’s central banks to build discursive legitimacy during their respective financial crises. It also helps to decolonize our understanding of how central banks respond to crises and preserve their license to operate using evidence from two African countries. Design…
Public Relations and Crisis Communication (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Trustworthiness (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Advertising (1 work)