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Michael D. Slater is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans medicine and social sciences, with a focus on epidemiology, literature and literary theory, applied psychology, communication, and sociology and political science. The scientist's work covers topics including media influence and health, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, smoking behavior and cessation, opioid use disorder treatment, health policy implementation science, and media studies and communication.

Recent publications by Michael D. Slater include the following:

  • "The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-term SM) Communities Study: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial at the community level to reduce opioid overdose deaths through implementation of an integrated set of evidence-based practices," 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "Health communication campaigns to drive demand for evidence-based practices and reduce stigma in the HEALing communities study," 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "Reinforcing Spirals Model," 2020, The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology
  • "Impact of the Climate Matters Program on Public Understanding of Climate Change," 2020, Weather Climate and Society
  • "Eudaimonic Media in Lived Experience: Retrospective Responses to Eudaimonic vs. Non-Eudaimonic Films," 2021, Mass Communication & Society

Frequent coauthors with whom Michael D. Slater has collaborated include:

  • Nicky Lewis
  • Michael D. Stein
  • Donald W. Helme
  • R. Craig Lefebvre
  • Sarah Mann

Publication venues where Michael D. Slater's work appears often include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Health Communication
  • PLoS ONE
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Michael D. Slater's publications reflect extensive involvement in the intersection of media studies and public health. Their work on substance abuse treatment and opioid use disorder treatment is evident in multiple research outputs, including coordinated studies on opioid overdose prevention. Communication strategies to influence health behaviors and public understanding of complex issues such as climate change also form part of their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Entertainment—Education and Elaboration Likelihood: Understanding the Processing of Narrative Persuasion

    Michael D. Slater;Donna Rouner

  • Reinforcing Spirals: The Mutual Influence of Media Selectivity and Media Effects and Their Impact on Individual Behavior and Social Identity

    Michael D. Slater

  • 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

  • Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveys

    Michael T Stephenson;Rick H Hoyle;Philip Palmgreen;Michael D Slater

  • Effects of alcohol advertising exposure on drinking among youth.

    Leslie B. Snyder;Frances Fleming Milici;Michael Slater;Michael Slater;Helen Sun

  • How Message Evaluation and Source Attributes May Influence Credibility Assessment and Belief Change

    Michael D. Slater;Donna Rouner

  • Violent Media Content and Aggressiveness in Adolescents A Downward Spiral Model

    Michael D. Slater;Kimberly L. Henry;Randall C. Swaim;Lori L. Anderson

  • Entertainment education and the persuasive impact of narratives.

    Michael D. Slater

  • Television Dramas and Support for Controversial Public Policies: Effects and Mechanisms

    Michael D. Slater;Donna Rouner;Marilee Long

  • Theory and Method in Health Audience Segmentation

    Michael D. Slater

  • Alienation, Aggression, and Sensation Seeking as Predictors of Adolescent Use of Violent Film, Computer, and Website Content

    Michael D. Slater

  • Operationalizing and Analyzing Exposure: The Foundation of Media Effects Research:

    Michael D. Slater

  • Reinforcing Spirals Model: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media Content Exposure and the Development and Maintenance of Attitudes

    Michael D. Slater

  • Value-Affirmative and Value-Protective Processing of Alcohol Education Messages That Include Statistical Evidence or Anecdotes:

    Michael D. Slater;Donna Rouner

  • Integrating Application of Media Effects, Persuasion, and Behavior Change Theories to Communication Campaigns: A Stages-of-Change Framework

    Michael D. Slater

  • The Sage sourcebook of advanced data analysis methods for communication research

    Andrew F. Hayes;Michael D. Slater;Leslie B. Snyder

  • Temporarily Expanding the Boundaries of the Self: Motivations for Entering the Story World and Implications for Narrative Effects

    Michael D. Slater;Benjamin K. Johnson;Jonathan Cohen;Maria Leonora G. Comello

  • Health Lifestyles: Audience Segmentation Analysis for Public Health Interventions:

    Michael D. Slater;June A. Flora

  • Newspaper Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence: Skewing Representations of Risk.

    Kellie E. Carlyle;Michael D. Slater;Jennifer L. Chakroff

  • Self-transcendent Media Experiences: Taking Meaningful Media to a Higher Level

    Mary Beth Oliver;Arthur A. Raney;Michael D. Slater;Markus Appel

  • Translating Health Psychology into Effective Health Communication: The American Healthstyles Audience Segmentation Project

    Edward W. Maibach;Andrew Maxfield;Kelly Ladin;Michael Slater

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Beauvais
Fred Beauvais Colorado State University
Andrew F. Hayes
Andrew F. Hayes University of Calgary
Kimberly L. Henry
Kimberly L. Henry Colorado State University
Simone Pettigrew
Simone Pettigrew George Institute for Global Health
Sarah Durkin
Sarah Durkin Cancer Council Victoria
David B. Buller
David B. Buller Klein Buendel (United States)
Mary Beth Oliver
Mary Beth Oliver Pennsylvania State University
Edward Maibach
Edward Maibach George Mason University
Michael T. Stephenson
Michael T. Stephenson Texas A&M University

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