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Joseph N. Cappella is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans medicine and social sciences, with significant contributions also in related subfields such as sociology and political science, applied psychology, oncology, physiology, and health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including behavioral health and interventions, smoking behavior and cessation, media influence and health, misinformation and its impacts, climate change communication and perception, global cancer incidence and screening, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Joseph N. Cappella has published extensively in multiple venues. Some frequent publication venues include Tobacco Control, Journal of Health Communication, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Communication, and American Journal of Public Health.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Where We Go From Here: Health Misinformation on Social Media, 2020, American Journal of Public Health
  • Exploring content of misinformation about HPV vaccine on twitter, 2022, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • The role of information avoidance in managing uncertainty from conflicting recommendations about electronic cigarettes, 2020, Communication Monographs
  • Delivering Effective Messages in the Patient-Clinician Encounter, 2024, JAMA
  • How did beliefs and perceptions about e-cigarettes change after national news coverage of the EVALI outbreak?, 2021, PLoS ONE

Joseph N. Cappella frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Laura D. Scherer, Jolyn Hersch, Marilyn M. Schapira, Carmen L. Lewis, and Kirsten McCaffery.

Best Publications

  • Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good

    Joseph N. Cappella;Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  • Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Narrative communication in cancer prevention and control: A framework to guide research and application

    Matthew W. Kreuter;Melanie C. Green;Joseph N. Cappella;Michael D. Slater

  • The Role of Theory in Developing Effective Health Communications

    Martin Fishbein;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Do People Watch what they Do Not Trust? Exploring the Association between News Media Skepticism and Exposure

    Yariv Tsfati;Joseph N. Cappella

  • News Frames, Political Cynicism, and Media Cynicism

    Joseph N. Cappella;Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  • Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion

    Vincent Price;Joseph N. Cappella;Lilach Nir

  • Mutual influence in expressive behavior: adult--adult and infant--adult dyadic interaction.

    Joseph N. Cappella

  • Talk and Silence Sequences in Informal Conversations III: Interspeaker Influence

    Joseph N. Cappella;Sally Planalp

  • Why Do People Watch News They Do Not Trust? The Need for Cognition as a Moderator in the Association Between News Media Skepticism and Exposure

    Yariv Tsfati;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Argument Repertoire as a Reliable and Valid Measure of Opinion Quality: Electronic Dialogue During Campaign 2000

    Joseph N. Cappella;Vincent Price;Lilach Nir

  • Normative and Informational Influences in Online Political Discussions

    Vincent Price;Lilach Nir;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Narrative Health Communication and Behavior Change: The Influence of Exemplars in the News on Intention to Quit Smoking.

    Hyun Suk Kim;Cabral A. Bigman;Amy E. Leader;Caryn Lerman

  • A discrepancy‐arousal explanation of mutual influence in expressive behavior for adult and infant‐adult interaction 1

    Joseph N. Cappella;John O. Greene

  • Where We Go From Here: Health Misinformation on Social Media

    Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou;Anna Gaysynsky;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions

    Vincent Price;Lilach Nir;Joseph N. Cappella

  • Big Data, Digital Media, and Computational Social Science: Possibilities and Perils

    Dhavan V. Shah;Joseph N. Cappella;W. Russell Neuman

  • A Measure of Perceived Argument Strength: Reliability and Validity.

    Xiaoquan Zhao;Andrew Strasser;Joseph N. Cappella;Caryn Lerman

  • Misinformation as a Misunderstood Challenge to Public Health.

    Brian G Southwell;Brian G Southwell;Brian G Southwell;Jeff Niederdeppe;Joseph N Cappella;Anna Gaysynsky

  • Antismoking Threat and Efficacy Appeals: Effects on Smoking Cessation Intentions for Smokers with Low and High Readiness to Quit

    Norman C. H. Wong;Joseph N. Cappella

  • The HPV vaccine and the media: how has the topic been covered and what are the effects on knowledge about the virus and cervical cancer?

    Bridget J. Kelly;Amy E. Leader;Danielle J. Mittermaier;Robert C. Hornik

  • Multivariate techniques in human communication research

    Peter R. Monge;Joseph N. Cappella

Frequent Co-Authors

Caryn Lerman
Caryn Lerman University of Southern California
Martin Fishbein
Martin Fishbein University of Pennsylvania
Marco Yzer
Marco Yzer University of Minnesota
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Romer
Daniel Romer University of Pennsylvania
James Loughead
James Loughead University of Pennsylvania
Eddie M. Clark
Eddie M. Clark Saint Louis University
Daniel J. O'Keefe
Daniel J. O'Keefe Northwestern University
Emily B. Falk
Emily B. Falk University of Pennsylvania
Kevin G. Lynch
Kevin G. Lynch University of Pennsylvania

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