Xiaoli Nan
Biographic Data
| ID | 84137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaoli Nan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaoli |
| SIGNATURE | NAN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8139-0503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Generative AI and misinformation
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced both opportunities and challenges in the fight against misinformation. This scoping review synthesizes recent empirical studies to explore the dual role of generative AI—particularly large language models (LLMs)—in the generation, detection, mitigation, and impact of misinformation. Analyzing 24 empirical studies, our review suggests that LLMs can generate highly conv…
Framing morality
Morality influences how individuals interpret socio-political issues and make decisions. Moral framing uses moral language to shape opinion, and moral appeals are persuasive messages that advance a position by explicitly invoking moral principles or values. This systematic review synthesized 34 publications comprising 57 randomized controlled experiments on the persuasive effects of moral appeals. The review examined three questions: the relative…
The persuasive effects of narratives
This systematic review of reviews aimed to determine whether and the extent to which narratives were persuasive. Our analysis of 30 systematic reviews revealed an overall persuasive advantage of narratives with a few nuances. First, the evidence was mixed when narratives were compared to statistics. In contrast, narratives showed greater persuasiveness when compared to other types of control. Second, patient narratives aided medical decision-maki…
Beliefs in Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among Unvaccinated Black Americans
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
Motivating Covid-19 Vaccination through Persuasive Communication
A Scoping Review of Emerging Covid-19 Health Communication Research in Communication and Media Journals
This article reports a scoping review of emerging research on COVID-19 health communication. We reviewed and analyzed 206 articles published in 40 peer-reviewed communication journals between January 2020 to April 2021. Our review identified key study characteristics and overall themes and trends in this rapidly expanding field of research. Our review of health communication scholarship during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests th…
Public Perceptions of Food Contamination Risks
How do consumers perceive risks associated with food contamination? How do they respond to foodborne illness outbreaks and food recalls resulting from food contamination? We report findings from an experiment (N = 1,010) in which participants were exposed to a simulated news report on a food contamination incident that had led to a foodborne illness outbreak and voluntary food recalls. Two characteristics of the food contamination incident were e…
Health misinformation
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…
Public Health Messaging during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that effective public health messaging is an indispensable component of a robust pandemic response system. In this article, we review decades of research from the interdisciplinary field of communication science and provide evidence-based recommendations for COVID-19 public health messaging. We take a principled approach by systematically examining the communication process, focusing on decisions about what…
Impact of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Health Warning Messages
Self-affirmation theory has inspired numerous studies that have tried to understand the effects of self-affirmation on defensive processing of threatening health messages and subsequent behavior. Despite the overall positive effects of self-affirmation, psychological processes through which self-affirmation exerts such impact remain unclear. We examined Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) as a potential moderator of the effects of self-aff…
Advanced research methods and their applications on the nexus of energy efficiency and environment
Using efficient and cleaner energy is environmentally friendly and is vital for combating the negative effect of emissions on the environment. Focusing on both developed and developing nations, it is important to report their environmental conditions while targeting economic and energy-related factors. In this regard, the current study is an attempt to investigate the influence of energy efficiency (ENEF), financial inclusion (FIN), economic grow…
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Public Health Communication in an Age of Covid-19”
In May 2020, we announced the Health Communication special issue Call for Papers (“Public Health Communication in an Age of COVID-19”). The special issue was envisioned to include both invited comm
Self-Affirmation Does Not Change Smokers’ Explicit or Implicit Attitudes Toward Smoking Following Exposure to Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
Self-affirmation has shown promise in promoting prohealth attitudes following exposure to threatening health messages by reducing defensive processing of such messages. We examine the impact of self-affirmation prior to viewing graphic cigarette warning labels on implicit and explicit attitudes toward smoking in a sample of African American smokers (N = 151). Participants held negative explicit and implicit attitudes toward smoking. We found no d…
Introduction to the Special Forum on “Public Health Communication in an Age of Covid-19”
Effects of self-affirmation on responses toward graphic cigarette warning labels
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of self-affirmation on African American smokers' intentions to quit smoking sooner and desire to stop smoking altogether in response to viewing graphic cigarette warning labels. It also tested the mediating role of perceived susceptibility and self-efficacy in explaining the impact of self-affirmation. Design/methodology/approach African American smokers ( N = 158) were recruited to part…
HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest
Objectives. To compare how human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was portrayed on Pinterest before and after the platform acted to moderate vaccine-related search results to understand (1) what the information environment looked like previously and (2) whether Pinterest’s policy decisions improved this environment in terms of sources and content. Methods. In this quantitative content analysis, we compared 2 samples of 500 HPV vaccine–focused Pin…
How Thinking about the Future Affects Our Decisions in the Present
Past research has consistently shown that people have the tendency to discount future outcomes. However, most health messages emphasize the long-term consequences of behaviors. Building upon past research on temporal discounting, time orientation, and construal level, the current research examines how dispositional time orientation (present and future) predicts health behavior intentions and the impact of situationally-activated future orientatio…
Influence of Evidence Type and Narrative Type on HPV Risk Perception and Intention to Obtain the HPV Vaccine
This research examines the influence of evidence type (statistical, narrative, or hybrid) and narrative type (first-person or third-person) on risk perception about human papillomavirus (HPV) and behavioral intention to get the HPV vaccine. In total, 174 college students who had not received the HPV vaccine participated in a controlled experiment. Results show that the hybrid message containing both statistical and narrative descriptions of HPV r…
The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions Toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate
Journal Article The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate Get access Xiaoli Nan, Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA, 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kelly Madden Kelly Madden 1Department of Communication, University of Marylan…
Using Message Framing in Health‐Related Persuasion
This chapter provides a review of theory and evidence concerning the relative persuasiveness of gain‐ versus loss‐framed messages in health contexts, with particular attention to research surrounding proposed moderators of message framing effects, including type of health behavior advocated, message recipients' involvement with the health issue and approach/avoidance tendency, and desirability of the end‐state emphasized in the message. The revie…
Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded
Journal Article Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded Get access Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 38, Issue 1, 1 January 2012, Pages 72–94, https://d…
Influence of Television Viewing and Sensation Seeking on Adolescents' Unrealistic Perceptions about Smoking and Smokers
This study investigates the influence of TV viewing and sensation seeking on adolescents' estimates of smoking prevalence and perceptions about smokers. Analysis of a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N = 6,792) indicates that more TV viewing is associated with higher estimates of smoking prevalence. Heavier TV consumption and higher sensation-seeking tendency both predict more favorable perceptions about smokers. Sensation seeking…
Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages
Journal Article Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages Get access Xiaoquan Zhao, Xiaoquan Zhao 1Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoquan Zhao; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 2Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Search fo…
Social Distance, Framing, and Judgment
Journal Article Social Distance, Framing, and Judgment: A Construal Level Perspective Get access Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI 53706 1Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 33, Issue 4, 1 October 2007, Pages 489–514, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2007.00309.x Published: 01 October 2007
Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded
Journal Article Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded Get access Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 38, Issue 1, 1 January 2012, Pages 72–94, https://d…
Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages
Journal Article Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages Get access Xiaoquan Zhao, Xiaoquan Zhao 1Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoquan Zhao; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 2Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Search fo…
How Thinking about the Future Affects Our Decisions in the Present
Past research has consistently shown that people have the tendency to discount future outcomes. However, most health messages emphasize the long-term consequences of behaviors. Building upon past research on temporal discounting, time orientation, and construal level, the current research examines how dispositional time orientation (present and future) predicts health behavior intentions and the impact of situationally-activated future orientatio…
The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions Toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate
Journal Article The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate Get access Xiaoli Nan, Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA, 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kelly Madden Kelly Madden 1Department of Communication, University of Marylan…
Influence of Television Viewing and Sensation Seeking on Adolescents' Unrealistic Perceptions about Smoking and Smokers
This study investigates the influence of TV viewing and sensation seeking on adolescents' estimates of smoking prevalence and perceptions about smokers. Analysis of a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N = 6,792) indicates that more TV viewing is associated with higher estimates of smoking prevalence. Heavier TV consumption and higher sensation-seeking tendency both predict more favorable perceptions about smokers. Sensation seeking…
Advertising and the Consumer Information Environment Online
The Internet has apparently become an important source of information for consumers and partly because of this trend, the Internet now presents a huge opportunity for advertisers who seek effective communication with their target markets. The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of the qualities and potentials of the Internet as an advertising medium. First, an overview of the various forms of Internet advertising is provided, a…
Advertising and the Consumer Information Environment Online
The Internet has apparently become an important source of information for consumers and partly because of this trend, the Internet now presents a huge opportunity for advertisers who seek effective communication with their target markets. The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of the qualities and potentials of the Internet as an advertising medium. First, an overview of the various forms of Internet advertising is provided, a…
Consumer Responses to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiatives
Through a controlled experiment, this study demonstrates that an ad with an embedded cause-related marketing (CRM) message, compared with a similar one without a CRM message, elicits more favorable consumer attitude toward the company. This is so regardless of the level of fit between the sponsoring brand and the social cause. Furthermore, when the embedded CRM message involves high versus low brand/cause fit, consumer attitudes toward the ad and…
Social Distance, Framing, and Judgment
Journal Article Social Distance, Framing, and Judgment: A Construal Level Perspective Get access Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI 53706 1Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 33, Issue 4, 1 October 2007, Pages 489–514, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2007.00309.x Published: 01 October 2007
Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages
Journal Article Influence of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Gain- versus Loss-Framed Antismoking Messages Get access Xiaoquan Zhao, Xiaoquan Zhao 1Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoquan Zhao; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 2Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Search fo…
Influence of Television Viewing and Sensation Seeking on Adolescents' Unrealistic Perceptions about Smoking and Smokers
This study investigates the influence of TV viewing and sensation seeking on adolescents' estimates of smoking prevalence and perceptions about smokers. Analysis of a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N = 6,792) indicates that more TV viewing is associated with higher estimates of smoking prevalence. Heavier TV consumption and higher sensation-seeking tendency both predict more favorable perceptions about smokers. Sensation seeking…
Using Message Framing in Health‐Related Persuasion
This chapter provides a review of theory and evidence concerning the relative persuasiveness of gain‐ versus loss‐framed messages in health contexts, with particular attention to research surrounding proposed moderators of message framing effects, including type of health behavior advocated, message recipients' involvement with the health issue and approach/avoidance tendency, and desirability of the end‐state emphasized in the message. The revie…
Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- Versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded
Journal Article Relative Persuasiveness of Gain- versus Loss-Framed Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Messages for the Present- and Future-Minded Get access Xiaoli Nan Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 38, Issue 1, 1 January 2012, Pages 72–94, https://d…
The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions Toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate
Journal Article The Role of Cultural Worldviews and Message Framing in Shaping Public Opinions toward the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandate Get access Xiaoli Nan, Xiaoli Nan 1Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA, 1Corresponding author: Xiaoli Nan; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kelly Madden Kelly Madden 1Department of Communication, University of Marylan…
Influence of Evidence Type and Narrative Type on HPV Risk Perception and Intention to Obtain the HPV Vaccine
This research examines the influence of evidence type (statistical, narrative, or hybrid) and narrative type (first-person or third-person) on risk perception about human papillomavirus (HPV) and behavioral intention to get the HPV vaccine. In total, 174 college students who had not received the HPV vaccine participated in a controlled experiment. Results show that the hybrid message containing both statistical and narrative descriptions of HPV r…
How Thinking about the Future Affects Our Decisions in the Present
Past research has consistently shown that people have the tendency to discount future outcomes. However, most health messages emphasize the long-term consequences of behaviors. Building upon past research on temporal discounting, time orientation, and construal level, the current research examines how dispositional time orientation (present and future) predicts health behavior intentions and the impact of situationally-activated future orientatio…
Introduction to the Special Forum on “Public Health Communication in an Age of Covid-19”
Effects of self-affirmation on responses toward graphic cigarette warning labels
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of self-affirmation on African American smokers' intentions to quit smoking sooner and desire to stop smoking altogether in response to viewing graphic cigarette warning labels. It also tested the mediating role of perceived susceptibility and self-efficacy in explaining the impact of self-affirmation. Design/methodology/approach African American smokers ( N = 158) were recruited to part…
HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest
Objectives. To compare how human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was portrayed on Pinterest before and after the platform acted to moderate vaccine-related search results to understand (1) what the information environment looked like previously and (2) whether Pinterest’s policy decisions improved this environment in terms of sources and content. Methods. In this quantitative content analysis, we compared 2 samples of 500 HPV vaccine–focused Pin…
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Public Health Communication in an Age of Covid-19”
In May 2020, we announced the Health Communication special issue Call for Papers (“Public Health Communication in an Age of COVID-19”). The special issue was envisioned to include both invited comm
Self-Affirmation Does Not Change Smokers’ Explicit or Implicit Attitudes Toward Smoking Following Exposure to Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
Self-affirmation has shown promise in promoting prohealth attitudes following exposure to threatening health messages by reducing defensive processing of such messages. We examine the impact of self-affirmation prior to viewing graphic cigarette warning labels on implicit and explicit attitudes toward smoking in a sample of African American smokers (N = 151). Participants held negative explicit and implicit attitudes toward smoking. We found no d…
Public Health Messaging during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that effective public health messaging is an indispensable component of a robust pandemic response system. In this article, we review decades of research from the interdisciplinary field of communication science and provide evidence-based recommendations for COVID-19 public health messaging. We take a principled approach by systematically examining the communication process, focusing on decisions about what…
Impact of Self-Affirmation on Responses to Health Warning Messages
Self-affirmation theory has inspired numerous studies that have tried to understand the effects of self-affirmation on defensive processing of threatening health messages and subsequent behavior. Despite the overall positive effects of self-affirmation, psychological processes through which self-affirmation exerts such impact remain unclear. We examined Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) as a potential moderator of the effects of self-aff…
Advanced research methods and their applications on the nexus of energy efficiency and environment
Using efficient and cleaner energy is environmentally friendly and is vital for combating the negative effect of emissions on the environment. Focusing on both developed and developing nations, it is important to report their environmental conditions while targeting economic and energy-related factors. In this regard, the current study is an attempt to investigate the influence of energy efficiency (ENEF), financial inclusion (FIN), economic grow…
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation
A Scoping Review of Emerging Covid-19 Health Communication Research in Communication and Media Journals
This article reports a scoping review of emerging research on COVID-19 health communication. We reviewed and analyzed 206 articles published in 40 peer-reviewed communication journals between January 2020 to April 2021. Our review identified key study characteristics and overall themes and trends in this rapidly expanding field of research. Our review of health communication scholarship during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests th…
Public Perceptions of Food Contamination Risks
How do consumers perceive risks associated with food contamination? How do they respond to foodborne illness outbreaks and food recalls resulting from food contamination? We report findings from an experiment (N = 1,010) in which participants were exposed to a simulated news report on a food contamination incident that had led to a foodborne illness outbreak and voluntary food recalls. Two characteristics of the food contamination incident were e…
Health misinformation
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
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
Motivating Covid-19 Vaccination through Persuasive Communication
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (9 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Health communication (7 works) · Media Influence and Health (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works)