Allison Earl
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Enhancing others through information selection: Establishing the phenomenon and its preconditions. Open
Past research has uncovered that people prefer to deliver positive news and flattering feedback to others. However, less is known about the generalizability and motives underlying the general selection of information to enhance others' sel…
Too close for comfort: leveraging identity-based relevance through targeted health information backfires for Black Americans Open
Communicators frequently make adjustments to accommodate receivers’ characteristics. One strategy for accommodation is to enhance the relevance of communication for receivers. The current work uses information targeting—a communication str…
White racial identity, political attitudes, and selective exposure to information about racism Open
Despite its documented benefits, information about racism can threaten White identity in ways that may motivate disengagement. In fact, people generally choose information that is favorable rather than unfavorable to their attitudes, socia…
Too Close for Comfort: Resisting Relevance as a Lever for Persuasion Open
Objective: This work investigates how broad principles of persuasion (e.g., the role of relevance) operate in the context of social identities. Although relevance is expected to facilitate persuasion, we use information targeting as a rele…
Real and Perceived Discordance in Physicians and U.S. Adults’ Beliefs Regarding the Causes and Controllability of Type 2 Diabetes Open
Discordance between physicians and patients' health beliefs can impede health communication efforts. However, little research considers physicians' perceptions of patient beliefs, despite the importance of perceptions in shaping communicat…
The Behavior of Same-Race Others and Its Effects on Black Patients’ Attention to Publicly Presented HIV-Prevention Information Open
Black Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, yet account for 54% of HIV deaths and 44% of new HIV diagnoses. Why do Black Americans die from HIV at such a disproportionate rate? In the current study, we asked whether the presence an…
De facto selective exposure revisited: Causes and consequences for attitudes, persuasion, and impression formation Open
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152339/1/Earl et al. vicarious selective exposure.pdf
Bringing context back: “Motivational” biases are shaped by the environment. Open
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152270/1/Earl, Hall, Jones, & Albarracin NHB.pdf
Understanding the influence of social norms on health behavior: Testing a conceptual model Open
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152268/1/Derricks & Earl norms paper.pdf
‘You Are What You Read:’ Is selective exposure a way people tell us who they are? Open
Selective exposure is the tendency to gather viewpoint‐congenial versus viewpoint‐uncongenial information. Extant models of selective exposure suggest this tendency occurs because people anticipate reading congenial (vs. uncongenial) infor…
Effect of Extraneous Affect on Health Message Reception Open
People often avoid paying attention to health messages. One reason is that health messages can evoke negative affect, which produces avoidance. Prior efforts to reduce disengagement focused on changing message content or buffering the self…
Understanding public transport needs in Cape Town's informal settlements: a Best-Worst-Scaling approach Open
A poor understanding of the needs of people living in informal settlements has often resulted in these needs being assumed and misunderstood due to the lack of proper public consultation or participation. Because of this, South Africa's tr…
Effect of Extraneous Affect on Health Message Reception Open
People often avoid paying attention to health messages. One reason is that health messages can evoke negative affect, which produces avoidance. Prior efforts to reduce disengagement focused on changing message content or buffering the self…