Lee Ann Kahlor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94433 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lee Ann Kahlor |
| PRENOMES | Lee Ann |
| SOBRENOME | Kahlor |
| ASSINATURA | KAHLOR L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3372-9589 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Planned Risk Information Seeking Model Applied to Vaccine Information Avoidance and the Role of Affect, Emotion and Perceived Benefits
1,508), we examined intentions to avoid information about vaccination against COVID-19. The study was guided by the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM), also taking into consideration benefit perceptions, positive affective responses, and discrete emotions. Our findings generally supported the utility of the extended PRISM to predict information avoidance intentions; most of the hypothesized relationships were supported and the model a…
The Roles of Social Media Use and Medical Mistrust in Black Americans’ Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare and public health messaging in the United States. One area of focus has been vaccination uptake among Black Americans, who have experienced COVID-19 deaths disproportionate to their share of the United States population, raising questions about the processes involved in vaccination perceptions and behaviors. Guided by the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model, this s…
Fact-checking in the age of AI
A Google Trends Analysis of Interest in Nonbinary Identities
Emerging research on stigma suggests that society's mistreatment of nonbinary individuals can, in part, be attributed to public uncertainty and a lack of knowledge about nonbinary identities. In response to this, this study drew upon the theoretical framework of uncertainty management to explore research questions related to nonbinary identity and information behaviors by investigating uncertainty management as evidenced by longitudinal Google Tr…
When Experts Offer Conflicting Information
This study conducted an experiment to examine the impact of informational conflicts about COVID-19 transmission routes on cognitive and behavioral factors. We were guided by the risk information seeking and processing model and focused on relationships among perceived ambiguity, information insufficiency, trustworthiness, and seeking/avoidance across several conditions. Data from 304 participants indicated a higher level of perceived ambiguity in…
Introduction to Sharon Dunwoody Memorial Issue
This introduction to our February 2023 issue is intended to provide context for the issue content, which presents multiple examples of the ongoing influence of the work of the late Sharon Dunwoody. Contemporary research articles, commentary pieces, and the introduction itself reflect Sharon’s deep influence on science communication and science communication researchers and their work
Risk perception, affect, and information avoidance during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election
During a presidential election cycle, voters consume information to alleviate uncertainty about the candidates and the process. As a result, elections offer an interesting (and somewhat novel) context for studying risk-related information behaviors. Here we argue that individuals avoid certain information, depending on the amount of risk they perceive and to what extent they experience risk-related affect. Based on national survey data collected …
U.S. Political Partisanship and Covid-19
The global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) poses serious health risks to humans; yet, despite recommendations by governments and health organizations, a significant number of Americans are not engaging in preventive behaviors. To understand and explain this phenomenon, we seek guidance from a theoretical model that merges the risk information seeking and processing model and the theory of planned behavior. Furthermore, given the politici…
Nanoscientists’ perceptions of serving as ethical leaders within their organization
Ethical leadership is a key component of responsible research innovation within science organizations because it fosters democratic participation in ethical behaviors among the scientists conducting the research innovation. Although scholars agree with the importance of roles from scientists in improving the societal impacts of science organizations, little is known about scientists' understanding of their potential role as ethical leaders. To fi…
Psychological distance, risk perception, and affect
Climate change poses innumerable threats to economic, social, and environmental systems. Despite our best efforts, emerging research indicates that mitigation and adaptation efforts must incorporate technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it elsewhere. This study examines how psychological distance and perceived risk pertaining to climate change influence Texans’ support for CCS t…
Person, Place, or Thing
This study focuses on the relationship between the community and the environment to explore (1) how community attachment affects residents’ risk perceptions and risk-coping strategies and (2) how risk knowledge is influenced by community-level psychological factors and, in turn, affects the decision to seek risk information. To find answers, 438 Texans were randomly surveyed on the topic of seismic activity induced by nearby natural gas extractio…
Environmental Risk (and Benefit) Information Seeking Intentions
Americans remain relatively unaware of the risks and benefits associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, including its role in combating CO2 emissions as a means to address climate change. Our goal is to determine factors that might help build awareness and knowledge of CCS so that citizens can make informed decisions about it. Specifically, we focus on perceived risks, benefits and emotions associated with CCS and intentions to…
Social media conversations about community water fluoridation
The findings of the text analysis will guide future research, with the goal of building a pro-CWF effort in Texas
Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean Mers-CoV epidemic
This study examines socio-cognitive motivators of information-sharing behaviors during the 2018 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. During the outbreak, an online survey was fielded to 988 South Korean adult members of an online research panel. The survey included questions about MERS-CoV-related risk perceptions, and attitudes and beliefs about risk information behaviors during the outbreak. The conce…
Effects of Covid-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing
We examined the implications of exposure to misinformation about COVID-19 in the United States, South Korea, and Singapore in the early stages of the global pandemic. The online survey results showed that misinformation exposure reduced information insufficiency, which subsequently led to greater information avoidance and heuristic processing, as well as less systematic processing of COVID-19 information. Indirect effects differ by country and we…
Development and Pilot Testing of an Evidence-Based Training Module for Integrating Social and Ethical Implications into the Lab
Planned Risk Information Avoidance
Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres. Disciplines from communication to psychology have been exploring the avoidance phenomena for decades, yet we lack a unifying theoretical model to understand it. To develop such a model, we start with the planned risk information-seeking model (PRISM) and explore its tenets, and related research, as they apply to information avoidance. We …
Risky Politics
News coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election periodically framed the election in terms of risk. We sought to better understand the role of perceived risk and related emotional responses in shaping information seeking intent during the election. We turned to the planned risk information seeking model as our theoretical framework and tested the model using online panel data collected in the month preceding Election Day 2016. Given the divis…
Ethics Information Seeking and Sharing Among Scientists
As nanotechnologies permeate our daily lives, it is increasingly important that we understand the ethical considerations of these innovations and to what extent scientists attend to these considerations. Guided by the theory of reasoned action and an extended version of that model that includes prior knowledge, sense of responsibility, and ethics involvement, we surveyed a sample of nanoscientists to explore their ethics information seeking and s…
Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior
Journal Article Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior: Exploring the Role of Decision-Making Stages Get access Matthew S. Eastin, Matthew S. Eastin 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA, 1Corresponding author: Matthew S. Eastin; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lee Ann Kahlor, Lee Ann Kahlor 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Pu…
Personal Cancer Knowledge and Information Seeking Through PRISM
This study retested PRISM, a model of risk information seeking, and found that it is applicable to the context of cancer risk communication. The study, which used an online sample of 928 U.S. adults, also tested the effect of additional variables on that model and found that the original model better fit the data. Among the strongest predictors of cancer information seeking were seeking-related subjective norms, attitude toward seeking, perceived…
I Share, Therefore I Am
This study examines social cognitive factors that influence information sharing related to climate change. Survey data were collected in the United States and China. Social and epistemic motivations, negative emotion, and information seeking were significant predictors of information sharing in the U.S. sample. In the Chinese sample, however, social motivation and information seeking were the only significant predictors. These results suggest tha…
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance
Guided by the risk information-seeking and processing model, this study examines positive and negative affect separately in their influence on information-seeking intentions and avoidance through structural equation analyses. The highlight is that information avoidance seems to be driven by positive affect, while information seeking seems to be more heavily influenced by negative affect. Another interesting finding is that informational subjectiv…
Prism
Recent attention on health-related information seeking has focused primarily on information seeking within specific health and health risk contexts. This study attempts to shift some of that focus to individual-level variables that may impact health risk information seeking across contexts. To locate these variables, the researcher posits an integrated model, the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM). The model, which treats risk informa…
If We Seek, Do We Learn
Derived from the risk information seeking and processing model (RISP), this study sought to isolate predictors of the public's knowledge of global warming. Using a national sample ( N = 805), multiple regression yielded a number of significant relationships among 13 moderators. Notably, the number of media sources used for information about global warming, information seeking effort, and general education were relatively strong predictors of know…
Television Viewing and Rape Myth Acceptance among College Women
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance
Guided by the risk information-seeking and processing model, this study examines positive and negative affect separately in their influence on information-seeking intentions and avoidance through structural equation analyses. The highlight is that information avoidance seems to be driven by positive affect, while information seeking seems to be more heavily influenced by negative affect. Another interesting finding is that informational subjectiv…
Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk
Attempts to model risk response tend to focus on risks that pose a direct personal threat. This study examined the applicability of one risk response model to impersonal risks—risks that threaten something other than the self, in this case, the environment. This study utilized a section of the Griffin et al. risk-information seeking and processing model, which depicts relationships between informational subjective norms and information seeking an…
Effects of Covid-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing
We examined the implications of exposure to misinformation about COVID-19 in the United States, South Korea, and Singapore in the early stages of the global pandemic. The online survey results showed that misinformation exposure reduced information insufficiency, which subsequently led to greater information avoidance and heuristic processing, as well as less systematic processing of COVID-19 information. Indirect effects differ by country and we…
Planned Risk Information Avoidance
Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres. Disciplines from communication to psychology have been exploring the avoidance phenomena for decades, yet we lack a unifying theoretical model to understand it. To develop such a model, we start with the planned risk information-seeking model (PRISM) and explore its tenets, and related research, as they apply to information avoidance. We …
If We Seek, Do We Learn
Derived from the risk information seeking and processing model (RISP), this study sought to isolate predictors of the public's knowledge of global warming. Using a national sample ( N = 805), multiple regression yielded a number of significant relationships among 13 moderators. Notably, the number of media sources used for information about global warming, information seeking effort, and general education were relatively strong predictors of know…
I Share, Therefore I Am
This study examines social cognitive factors that influence information sharing related to climate change. Survey data were collected in the United States and China. Social and epistemic motivations, negative emotion, and information seeking were significant predictors of information sharing in the U.S. sample. In the Chinese sample, however, social motivation and information seeking were the only significant predictors. These results suggest tha…
Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior
Journal Article Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior: Exploring the Role of Decision-Making Stages Get access Matthew S. Eastin, Matthew S. Eastin 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA, 1Corresponding author: Matthew S. Eastin; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lee Ann Kahlor, Lee Ann Kahlor 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Pu…
Risky Politics
News coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election periodically framed the election in terms of risk. We sought to better understand the role of perceived risk and related emotional responses in shaping information seeking intent during the election. We turned to the planned risk information seeking model as our theoretical framework and tested the model using online panel data collected in the month preceding Election Day 2016. Given the divis…
Predicting Knowledge Complexity in the Wake of an Environmental Risk
In 1993, the parasite cryptosporidium infested the Milwaukee-area drinking supply and sickened some 400,000 people. This study uses survey data gathered from 610 residents in the wake of that outbreak to look at predictors of the complexity of people’s understanding of two causal components of the outbreak: (1) how the parasite got into the water and (2) how it caused illness in the human body. Analysis of open-ended data indicated that, consiste…
Fact-checking in the age of AI
Psychological distance, risk perception, and affect
Climate change poses innumerable threats to economic, social, and environmental systems. Despite our best efforts, emerging research indicates that mitigation and adaptation efforts must incorporate technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it elsewhere. This study examines how psychological distance and perceived risk pertaining to climate change influence Texans’ support for CCS t…
Ethics Information Seeking and Sharing Among Scientists
As nanotechnologies permeate our daily lives, it is increasingly important that we understand the ethical considerations of these innovations and to what extent scientists attend to these considerations. Guided by the theory of reasoned action and an extended version of that model that includes prior knowledge, sense of responsibility, and ethics involvement, we surveyed a sample of nanoscientists to explore their ethics information seeking and s…
Person, Place, or Thing
This study focuses on the relationship between the community and the environment to explore (1) how community attachment affects residents’ risk perceptions and risk-coping strategies and (2) how risk knowledge is influenced by community-level psychological factors and, in turn, affects the decision to seek risk information. To find answers, 438 Texans were randomly surveyed on the topic of seismic activity induced by nearby natural gas extractio…
Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean Mers-CoV epidemic
This study examines socio-cognitive motivators of information-sharing behaviors during the 2018 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. During the outbreak, an online survey was fielded to 988 South Korean adult members of an online research panel. The survey included questions about MERS-CoV-related risk perceptions, and attitudes and beliefs about risk information behaviors during the outbreak. The conce…
Development and Pilot Testing of an Evidence-Based Training Module for Integrating Social and Ethical Implications into the Lab
Attributions in explanations of risk estimates
In the spring of 1993, nearly 40 percent of Milwaukee-area residents experienced a nationally publicized outbreak of cryptosporidium, a parasite that infested the metropolitan drinking water supply. Using open-ended survey data gathered from 610 adult residents in the wake of that outbreak, this study looks at factors related to the ways in which people make sense of their quantitative personal risk estimates. The concepts of informal reasoning a…
Studying Heuristic‐Systematic Processing of Risk Communication
Using a model of risk information seeking and processing developed by Griffin, Dunwoody, and Neuwirth (1999) , this study looks at predictors of the processing strategies that people apply to health risk information. Specifically, this article focuses on one relationship within the model—the relationship between perceived amount of information needed to deal with a risk and heuristic‐systematic processing. Perceived amount of information needed r…
Predicting Knowledge Complexity in the Wake of an Environmental Risk
In 1993, the parasite cryptosporidium infested the Milwaukee-area drinking supply and sickened some 400,000 people. This study uses survey data gathered from 610 residents in the wake of that outbreak to look at predictors of the complexity of people’s understanding of two causal components of the outbreak: (1) how the parasite got into the water and (2) how it caused illness in the human body. Analysis of open-ended data indicated that, consiste…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate styles of attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consist…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate stylesof attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consiste…
Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk
Attempts to model risk response tend to focus on risks that pose a direct personal threat. This study examined the applicability of one risk response model to impersonal risks—risks that threaten something other than the self, in this case, the environment. This study utilized a section of the Griffin et al. risk-information seeking and processing model, which depicts relationships between informational subjective norms and information seeking an…
An Augmented Risk Information Seeking Model
This effort argues for an augmented version of the relatively new Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) Model, and subsequently applies this augmented RISP model specifically to environmental risk information seeking. Nearly 830 randomly selected members of a national panel were surveyed about their attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors regarding seeking information about an environmental risk—global warming. Path analysis suggests the p…
Television Viewing and Rape Myth Acceptance among College Women
If We Seek, Do We Learn
Derived from the risk information seeking and processing model (RISP), this study sought to isolate predictors of the public's knowledge of global warming. Using a national sample ( N = 805), multiple regression yielded a number of significant relationships among 13 moderators. Notably, the number of media sources used for information about global warming, information seeking effort, and general education were relatively strong predictors of know…
Prism
Recent attention on health-related information seeking has focused primarily on information seeking within specific health and health risk contexts. This study attempts to shift some of that focus to individual-level variables that may impact health risk information seeking across contexts. To locate these variables, the researcher posits an integrated model, the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM). The model, which treats risk informa…
I Share, Therefore I Am
This study examines social cognitive factors that influence information sharing related to climate change. Survey data were collected in the United States and China. Social and epistemic motivations, negative emotion, and information seeking were significant predictors of information sharing in the U.S. sample. In the Chinese sample, however, social motivation and information seeking were the only significant predictors. These results suggest tha…
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance
Guided by the risk information-seeking and processing model, this study examines positive and negative affect separately in their influence on information-seeking intentions and avoidance through structural equation analyses. The highlight is that information avoidance seems to be driven by positive affect, while information seeking seems to be more heavily influenced by negative affect. Another interesting finding is that informational subjectiv…
Personal Cancer Knowledge and Information Seeking Through PRISM
This study retested PRISM, a model of risk information seeking, and found that it is applicable to the context of cancer risk communication. The study, which used an online sample of 928 U.S. adults, also tested the effect of additional variables on that model and found that the original model better fit the data. Among the strongest predictors of cancer information seeking were seeking-related subjective norms, attitude toward seeking, perceived…
Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior
Journal Article Information-Seeking as a Precaution Behavior: Exploring the Role of Decision-Making Stages Get access Matthew S. Eastin, Matthew S. Eastin 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA, 1Corresponding author: Matthew S. Eastin; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lee Ann Kahlor, Lee Ann Kahlor 1Stan Richards School of Advertising and Pu…
Ethics Information Seeking and Sharing Among Scientists
As nanotechnologies permeate our daily lives, it is increasingly important that we understand the ethical considerations of these innovations and to what extent scientists attend to these considerations. Guided by the theory of reasoned action and an extended version of that model that includes prior knowledge, sense of responsibility, and ethics involvement, we surveyed a sample of nanoscientists to explore their ethics information seeking and s…
Risky Politics
News coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election periodically framed the election in terms of risk. We sought to better understand the role of perceived risk and related emotional responses in shaping information seeking intent during the election. We turned to the planned risk information seeking model as our theoretical framework and tested the model using online panel data collected in the month preceding Election Day 2016. Given the divis…
Development and Pilot Testing of an Evidence-Based Training Module for Integrating Social and Ethical Implications into the Lab
Planned Risk Information Avoidance
Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres. Disciplines from communication to psychology have been exploring the avoidance phenomena for decades, yet we lack a unifying theoretical model to understand it. To develop such a model, we start with the planned risk information-seeking model (PRISM) and explore its tenets, and related research, as they apply to information avoidance. We …
Environmental Risk (and Benefit) Information Seeking Intentions
Americans remain relatively unaware of the risks and benefits associated with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, including its role in combating CO2 emissions as a means to address climate change. Our goal is to determine factors that might help build awareness and knowledge of CCS so that citizens can make informed decisions about it. Specifically, we focus on perceived risks, benefits and emotions associated with CCS and intentions to…
Social media conversations about community water fluoridation
The findings of the text analysis will guide future research, with the goal of building a pro-CWF effort in Texas
Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean Mers-CoV epidemic
This study examines socio-cognitive motivators of information-sharing behaviors during the 2018 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. During the outbreak, an online survey was fielded to 988 South Korean adult members of an online research panel. The survey included questions about MERS-CoV-related risk perceptions, and attitudes and beliefs about risk information behaviors during the outbreak. The conce…
Effects of Covid-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing
We examined the implications of exposure to misinformation about COVID-19 in the United States, South Korea, and Singapore in the early stages of the global pandemic. The online survey results showed that misinformation exposure reduced information insufficiency, which subsequently led to greater information avoidance and heuristic processing, as well as less systematic processing of COVID-19 information. Indirect effects differ by country and we…
Person, Place, or Thing
This study focuses on the relationship between the community and the environment to explore (1) how community attachment affects residents’ risk perceptions and risk-coping strategies and (2) how risk knowledge is influenced by community-level psychological factors and, in turn, affects the decision to seek risk information. To find answers, 438 Texans were randomly surveyed on the topic of seismic activity induced by nearby natural gas extractio…
Risk perception, affect, and information avoidance during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election
During a presidential election cycle, voters consume information to alleviate uncertainty about the candidates and the process. As a result, elections offer an interesting (and somewhat novel) context for studying risk-related information behaviors. Here we argue that individuals avoid certain information, depending on the amount of risk they perceive and to what extent they experience risk-related affect. Based on national survey data collected …
U.S. Political Partisanship and Covid-19
The global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) poses serious health risks to humans; yet, despite recommendations by governments and health organizations, a significant number of Americans are not engaging in preventive behaviors. To understand and explain this phenomenon, we seek guidance from a theoretical model that merges the risk information seeking and processing model and the theory of planned behavior. Furthermore, given the politici…
Psychology (31 obras) · Social Psychology (23 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (15 obras) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (14 obras) · Information seeking (14 obras) · Perception (14 obras) · Risk Perception and Management (13 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras)