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James Price Dillard is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on communication and behavioral health interventions.

Their recent publications illustrate an emphasis on health communication and the dynamics of persuasive messaging. Notable papers include:

  • Persuasive Messages, Social Norms, and Reactance: A Study of Masking Behavior during a COVID-19 Campus Health Campaign (2021), published in Health Communication
  • Fear of Zika: Information Seeking as Cause and Consequence (2020), published in Health Communication
  • Talking about Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Campaign-Induced Interpersonal Communication (2020), published in Health Communication
  • Sweet talk for voters: a survey of persuasive messaging in ten U. S. sugar-sweetened beverage tax referendums (2020), published in Critical Public Health
  • The persuasive effects of verbal anchoring and visual complexity (2022), published in Journal of Visual Literacy

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Lijiang Shen
  • Shu Scott Li
  • Shannon M. Cruz
  • Stephen Mainzer
  • Charles Andrew Cole

Prominent publication venues for their work are:

  • Health Communication
  • Western Journal of Communication
  • Environmental Management
  • Critical Public Health
  • Journal of Visual Literacy

James Price Dillard's primary fields of study involve psychology, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Within these broader areas, their subfields of study include applied psychology, literature and literary theory, sociology and political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics explored in their research are behavioral health and interventions, media influence and health, misinformation and its impacts, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, social media and politics, COVID-19 and mental health, and language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Best Publications

  • On the Nature of Reactance and its Role in Persuasive Health Communication

    James Price Dillard;Lijiang Shen

  • The Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice

    James Price Dillard;Michael Pfau

  • Meta-analytic evidence for the persuasive effect of narratives on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors

    Kurt Braddock;James Price Dillard

  • The Persuasive Effects of Metaphor: A Meta-Analysis

    Pradeep Sopory;James Price Dillard

  • Affect and Persuasion Emotional Responses to Public Service Announcements

    James Price Dillard;Eugenia Peck

  • Primary and secondary goals in the production of interpersonal influence messages

    James Price Dillard;Chris Segrin;Janie M. Harden

  • Increasing Political Sophistication Through Public Deliberation

    John Gastil;James P Dillard

  • The Multiple Affective Outcomes of AIDS PSAs Fear Appeals Do More Than Scare People

    James Price Dillard;Courtney A. Plotnick;Linda C. Godbold;Vicki S. Freimuth

  • The SAGE handbook of persuasion : developments in theory and practice

    James Price Dillard;Lijiang Shen

  • Affect and Persuasion

    James Price Dillard;Eugenia Peck

  • Empathy, communication, and prosocial behavior

    James B. Stiff;James Price Dillard;Lilnabeth Somera;Hyun Kim

  • The Effect of Narrative News Format on Empathy for Stigmatized Groups

    Mary Beth Oliver;James Price Dillard;Keunmin Bae;Daniel J. Tamul

  • The Persuasive Influence of Emotion in Cancer Prevention and Detection Messages

    James Price Dillard;Robin L. Nabi

  • Sequential-request persuasive strategies: Meta-analysis of foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face.

    James P. Dillard;John E. Hunter;Michael Burgoon

  • Does Perceived Message Effectiveness Cause Persuasion or Vice Versa? 17 Consistent Answers

    James Price Dillard;Lijiang Shen;Renata Grillova Vail

  • The Relationship Between the Perceived and Actual Effectiveness of Persuasive Messages: A Meta-Analysis With Implications for Formative Campaign Research

    James Price Dillard;Kirsten M. Weber;Renata G. Vail

  • Fear appeals in health promotion campaigns: Too much, too little, or just right?

    Jerold L. Hale;James Price Dillard

  • Presumed influence on peer norms: How mass media indirectly affect adolescent smoking

    Albert C. Gunther;Daniel Bolt;Dina L. G. Borzekowski;Janice L. Liebhart

  • Communicator Competence in the Workplace: Model Testing and Scale Development

    Peter R. Monge;Susan G. Bachman;James P. Dillard;Eric M. Eisenberg

  • The Influence of Behavioral Inhibition/Approach Systems and Message Framing on the Processing of Persuasive Health Messages

    Lijiang Shen;James Price Dillard

  • The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication

    Charles R. Berger;Michael E. Roloff;Steve R. Wilson;James Price Dillard

Frequent Co-Authors

Denise Haunani Solomon
Denise Haunani Solomon Pennsylvania State University
Chris Segrin
Chris Segrin University of Arizona
Michael T. Stephenson
Michael T. Stephenson Texas A&M University
John E. Hunter
John E. Hunter Michigan State University
Mary Beth Oliver
Mary Beth Oliver Pennsylvania State University
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robin L. Nabi
Robin L. Nabi University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel M. Bolt
Daniel M. Bolt University of Wisconsin–Madison
John P. Caughlin
John P. Caughlin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara

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