Veronica Derricks
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EMPOWER!: Brain Health Education to Promote Early Detection of Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Screening Open
Introduction Black older adults are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). They are also more likely to have delayed or missed diagnoses of ADRD, because of lower cognitive screening rates during the e…
Signaling Allyship Via EARS: An Investigation of a Novel Allyship Framework Among Black Women in Maternal Health Settings Open
Low-quality patient-provider interactions contribute to and further exacerbate Black women’s poor maternal health outcomes. Perceiving one’s provider as an ally , or someone that acknowledges and addresses racial inequities can potentially…
Examining the role of social comparison perceptions on identity-safety for Black Americans in organizations. Open
Black Americans remain underrepresented in organizations. Although extensive research demonstrates that inadequate representation undermines inclusion, few studies have assessed the psychological processes through which this relationship e…
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…
Patient activation reduces effects of implicit bias on doctor–patient interactions Open
Disparities between Black and White Americans persist in medical treatment and health outcomes. One reason is that physicians sometimes hold implicit racial biases that favor White (over Black) patients. Thus, disrupting the effects of phy…
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…