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Lauren G. Block

Lauren G. Block

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
7672
World Ranking
5874
National Ranking
2793

Overview

Lauren G. Block is affiliated with Baruch College in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work also intersects with Marketing, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Education.

The subfields of their research emphasize General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Marketing, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Education.

Their research topics span a range of subjects including:

  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Empathy and Medical Education

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Clinical Lipidology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • MedEdPORTAL
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Journal of Consumer Psychology

Common collaborators in their research endeavors are Spencer Weintraub, Nancy LaVine, Daniel J. Coletti, Ji-Cheng Hsieh, and Rahul Rege.

Among recent papers connected to their research direction are:

  • Contract Negotiation Skills: A Workshop for Women in Medicine, 2020, MedEdPORTAL
  • Personality Matters during a Pandemic: Implicit Theory Beliefs Influence Preparedness and Prevention Behaviors, 2020, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
  • Career Plans of Internal Medicine Residents From 2019 to 2021, 2023, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Design Thinking in Medical Ethics Education, 2020, Journal of Medical Ethics
  • The Serving Temperature Effect: Food Temperature, Expected Satiety, and Complementary Food Purchases, 2020, Appetite

Best Publications

  • When to Accentuate the Negative: The Effects of Perceived Efficacy and Message Framing on Intentions to Perform a Health-Related Behavior:

    Lauren G. Block;Punam Anand Keller

  • From Nutrients to Nurturance: A Conceptual Introduction to Food Well-Being:

    Lauren G . Block;Sonya A . Grier;Terry L . Childers;Brennan Davis

  • Increasing the Persuasiveness of Fear Appeals: The Effect of Arousal and Elaboration

    Punam Anand Keller;Lauren Goldberg Block

  • Vividness Effects: A Resource-Matching Perspective

    Punam Anand Keller;Lauren G. Block

  • Vicarious Goal Fulfillment: When the Mere Presence of a Healthy Option Leads to an Ironically Indulgent Decision

    Keith Wilcox;Beth Vallen;Lauren G. Block;Gavan Fitzsimons

  • Shopping Lists as an External Memory Aid for Grocery Shopping: Influences on List Writing and List Fulfillment

    Lauren G. Block;Vicki G. Morwitz

  • Conscious and Nonconscious Components of Superstitious Beliefs in Judgment and Decision Making

    Thomas Kramer;Lauren Block

  • The Cool Scent of Power: Effects of Ambient Scent on Consumer Preferences and Choice Behavior

    Adriana V. Madzharov;Lauren G. Block;Maureen Morrin

  • When Consumers Do Not Recognize "Benign" Intention Questions as Persuasion Attempts

    Patti Williams;Gavan J. Fitzsimons;Lauren G. Block

  • The Squander Sequence: Understanding Food Waste at Each Stage of the Consumer Decision-Making Process

    Lauren G. Block;Punam A. Keller;Beth Vallen;Sara Williamson

  • Why did I eat that? Perspectives on food decision making and dietary restraint

    Melissa G. Bublitz;Laura A. Peracchio;Lauren G. Block

  • Window displays and consumer shopping decisions

    Sankar Sen;Lauren G. Block;Sucharita Chandran

  • Effects of product unit image on consumption of snack foods

    Adriana V. Madzharov;Lauren G. Block

  • Effects of Self-Efficacy and Vividness on the Persuasiveness of Health Communications

    Lauren G. Block;Punam Anand Keller

  • Beyond Protection Motivation: An Integrative Theory of Health Appeals

    Lauren G. Block;Punam Anand Keller

  • The effect of superstitious beliefs on performance expectations

    Lauren Block;Thomas Kramer

  • We're at as Much Risk as We Are Led to Believe: Effects of Message Cues on Judgments of Health Risk

    Geeta Menon;Lauren G. Block;Suresh Ramanathan

  • The question-behavior effect: What we know and where we go from here

    David E. Sprott;Eric R. Spangenberg;Lauren G. Block;Gavan J. Fitzsimons

  • The Placebo Effect in Marketing: Sometimes You Just Have to Want It to Work

    Caglar Irmak;Lauren G. Block;Gavan J. Fitzsimons

  • Simply asking questions about health behaviors increases both healthy and unhealthy behaviors

    Patti Williams;Lauren G. Block;Gavan J. Fitzsimons

  • When Consumers Don't Recognize 'Benign' Intention Questions as Persuasion Attempts

    Patti Williams;Gavan J. Fitzsimons;Lauren Block

  • When to Accentuate the Negative: The Effects of Perceived Efficacy and Message Framing on Intentions to

    Lauren G. Block;Punam Anand Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Gavan J. Fitzsimons Duke University
Laura A. Peracchio
Laura A. Peracchio University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Sankar Sen
Sankar Sen City University of New York
Julie L. Ozanne
Julie L. Ozanne University of Melbourne
Eric R. Spangenberg
Eric R. Spangenberg University of California, Irvine
Simone Pettigrew
Simone Pettigrew George Institute for Global Health
Mary Frances Luce
Mary Frances Luce Duke University

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