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Melanie C. Green is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the social sciences, arts and humanities, and psychology. Their subfields of study include literature and literary theory, sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, and communication.

Their research interests encompass a variety of topics, notably media influence and health, media, gender, and advertising, media studies and communication, the impact of technology on adolescents, communication in education and healthcare, science education and perceptions, and educational games and gamification.

Several recent papers illustrate the thematic scope and contributions of their work. These include:

  • Reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans: the effects of narratives, character's self-persuasion, and trust in science, 2022, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • "Dear future woman of STEM": letters of advice from women in STEM, 2023, International Journal of STEM Education
  • Restorative Narratives, 2020, The Journal of Public Interest Communications
  • Need for Cognition, Transportability, and Engagement with Interactive Narratives, 2020, Games for Health Journal
  • The effect of embodying a woman scientist in virtual reality on men's gender biases, 2021, Technology Mind and Behavior

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Melissa M. Moore
  • Gili Freedman
  • Kaitlin Fitzgerald
  • Amy Shirong Lu
  • Debbe Thompson

Publishing venues where Melanie C. Green has multiple works include:

  • The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology
  • Technology Mind and Behavior
  • Media Psychology
  • Psychology of Popular Media
  • Communication Research

Best Publications

  • The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives.

    Melanie C. Green;Timothy C. Brock

  • Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds

    Melanie C. Green;Timothy C. Brock;Geoff F. Kaufman

  • The psychology of the unthinkable: taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals.

    Philip E. Tetlock;Orie V. Kristel;S. Beth Elson;Melanie C. Green

  • Transportation Into Narrative Worlds: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Perceived Realism.

    Melanie C. Green

  • Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires: Comparisons of Respondent Satisficing and Social Desirability Response Bias

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Melanie C. Green;J. O. N. A. Krosnick

  • 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

  • In the Mind's Eye Transportation-Imagery Model of Narrative Persuasion

    Melanie C. Green;Timothy C. Brock

  • Narratives and Cancer Communication

    Melanie C. Green

  • The Impact of "No Opinion" Response Options on Data Quality: Non-Attitude Reduction or an Invitation to Satisfice?

    Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;Matthew K. Berent;Richard T. Carson

  • Narrative Impact : Social and Cognitive Foundations

    Melanie C. Green;Jeffrey J. Strange;Timothy C. Brock

  • Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection:

    Jenna L. Clark;Sara B. Algoe;Melanie C. Green

  • Transportation Across Media: Repeated Exposure to Print and Film

    Melanie C. Green;Sheryl Kass;Jana Carrey;Benjamin Herzig

  • This Story Is Not for Everyone: Transportability and Narrative Persuasion

    Philip J. Mazzocco;Melanie C. Green;Jo A. Sasota;Norman W. Jones

  • The Transportation Scale–Short Form (TS–SF)

    Markus Appel;Timo Gnambs;Tobias Richter;Melanie C. Green

  • The Role of a Narrative's Emotional Flow in Promoting Persuasive Outcomes

    Robin L. Nabi;Melanie C. Green

  • You are who you watch: Identification and transportation effects on temporary self-concept

    Marc Sestir;Melanie C. Green

  • The Power of Fiction: Determinants and Boundaries

    Melanie C. Green;Jennifer Garst;Timothy C. Brock

  • Fictional narratives change beliefs: replications of Prentice, Gerrig, and Bailis (1997) with mixed corroboration.

    S. Christian Wheeler;Melanie C. Green;Timothy C. Brock

  • Transportation into narrative worlds: implications for entertainment media influences on tobacco use

    Melanie C. Green;Jenna L. Clark

  • Coping with Accountability Cross-Pressures: Low-Effort Evasive Tactics and High-Effort Quests for Complex Compromises

    Melanie C. Green;Penny S. Visser;Philip E. Tetlock

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy C. Brock
Timothy C. Brock The Ohio State University
John Sabini
John Sabini University of Pennsylvania
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
S. Christian Wheeler
S. Christian Wheeler Stanford University
Laura A. King
Laura A. King University of Missouri
Daniel J. O'Keefe
Daniel J. O'Keefe Northwestern University
Robin L. Nabi
Robin L. Nabi University of California, Santa Barbara
Eddie M. Clark
Eddie M. Clark Saint Louis University
Jennifer S. Lerner
Jennifer S. Lerner Harvard University

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