Public understanding of precision medicine research
- Study in progress: examining how uncertainty influences public willingness to participate in precision medicine research (details coming soon + to be presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine annual conference in April 2020)
- Presented “Public Understanding of Precision Medicine Research: A Qualitative Analysis of Lay Perceptions” at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare in San Diego, October 2019
- New paper in Journal of Health Communication: Foreseeing challenges in precision medicine communication
- Interviewed for ‘Fairness in Precision Medicine’ report
- Interviewed for Data & Society article on DTC genetic testing
- Presented at Huntsman Cancer Institute: gaps in genomic communication research
- Summer 2017 fellow at the National Cancer Institute
How the public conceptualizes and responds to scientific uncertainty
- Study in progress: communicating scientific uncertainty in the media — a mixed-methods investigation
- Scientific uncertainty chapter published in Routledge volume
Psychological reactance and resistance to persuasion
- Narratives and resistance meta-analysis published in Human Communication Research (Feb 2020)
- New article in Communication Research (August 2019): reactance review
- New article in Risk Analysis (July 2019): framing, reactance, and dose
- Presented at ICA 2018: meta-analysis of studies of narrative effects on resistance
- Presented at DCHC 2017: loss/gain framing and reactance (we nabbed “top paper”!)
- Meta-analysis of narratives and resistance (part 1) wins Eason prize in Chicago
Digital health engagement