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D-Index
40
Citations
17028
World Ranking
5171
National Ranking
2437

Overview

Kim Witte is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their academic profile encompasses a focus on scientific research and scholarly pursuits within this institution.

There are no records of recent papers, co-authors, or publication venues associated with Kim Witte available at this time.

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Best Publications

  • Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process model

    Kim Witte

  • A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns

    Kim Witte;Mike Allen

  • Fear control and danger control: A test of the extended parallel process model (EPPM)

    Kim Witte

  • Predicting risk behaviors: development and validation of a diagnostic scale.

    Kim Witte;Kenzie A. Cameron;Janet K. McKeon;Judy M. Berkowitz

  • Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide

    Kim Witte;Gary Meyer;Dennis P. Martell

  • Fear as motivator, fear as inhibitor: Using the extended parallel process model to explain fear appeal successes and failures.

    Kim Witte

  • Fear appeals and persuasion: A review and update of the Extended Parallel Process Model.

    Erin K. Maloney;Maria K. Lapinski;Kim Witte

  • Preventing the Spread of Genital Warts: Using Fear Appeals to Promote Self-Protective Behaviors

    Kim Witte;Judy M. Berkowitz;Kenzie A. Cameron;Janet K. McKeon

  • The role of threat and efficacy in AIDS prevention.

    Kim Witte

  • Fear, threat, and perceptions of efficacy from frightening skin cancer messages.

    Stephenson Mt;Witte K

  • Can fear arousal in public health campaigns contribute to the decline of HIV prevalence

    Edward C. Green;Kim Witte

  • Addressing cultural orientations in fear appeals: promoting AIDS-protective behaviors among Mexican immigrant and African American adolescents and American and Taiwanese college students.

    Lisa Murray-Johnson;Kim Witte;Wen-Ying Liu;Anne P. Hubbell

  • Generating Effective Risk Messages: How Scary Should Your Risk Communication Be?

    Kim Witte

  • Social Sides of Health Risks: Stigma and Collective Efficacy

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  • Fishing for success: Using the persuasive health message framework to generate effective campaign messages.

    Kim Witte

  • A theoretically based evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns along the trans-Africa highway in Kenya.

    Kim Witte;Kenzie A. Cameron;Maria Knight Lapinski;Solomon Nzyuko

  • Creating Fear in a Risky World: Generating Effective Health Risk Messages

    Michael T. Stephenson;Kim Witte

  • Drama Theory and Entertainment Education: Exploring the Effects of a Radio Drama on Behavioral Intentions to Limit HIV Transmission in Ethiopia

    Rachel A. Smith;Edward Downs;Kim Witte

  • The perception of risk messages regarding electromagnetic fields: extending the extended parallel process model to an unknown risk.

    Shari McMahan;Kim Witte;Jon'a Meyer

  • Examining the influence of trait anxiety/repression‐sensitization on individuals’ reactions to fear appeals

    Kim Witte;Kelly Morrison

  • Preventing teen pregnancy through persuasive communications: realities, myths, and the hard-fact truths.

    Kim Witte

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Stephenson
Michael T. Stephenson Texas A&M University
Kenzie A. Cameron
Kenzie A. Cameron Northwestern University
Arvind Singhal
Arvind Singhal The University of Texas at El Paso
Michael S. Allen
Michael S. Allen Michigan State University
James Price Dillard
James Price Dillard Pennsylvania State University
Mike Allen
Mike Allen University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Hye-Jin Paek
Hye-Jin Paek Hanyang University
Kurt M. Ribisl
Kurt M. Ribisl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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