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Overview

Michael L. Hecht is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and medicine, with a focus on public health and communication.

The main fields of study for Michael L. Hecht include Social Sciences and Medicine. The subfields are Sociology and Political Science, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health.

The scientist's research topics cover Media Influence and Health, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Child Development and Digital Technology, Youth Development and Social Support, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research.

Notable recent papers by Michael L. Hecht and collaborators include:

  • Short term effects of the REAL media e-learning media literacy substance prevention curriculum: An RCT of adolescents disseminated through a community organization, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Identifying as a Good Parent: Considering the Communication Theory of Identity for Parents of Children Receiving Palliative Care, 2020, Journal of Palliative Medicine
  • The Role of Engagement in Effective, Digital Prevention Interventions: the Function of Engagement in the REAL Media Substance Use Prevention Curriculum, 2020, Prevention Science
  • The impact of HPV vaccine narratives on social media: Testing narrative engagement theory with a diverse sample of young adults, 2022, Preventive Medicine Reports
  • Motivators and Barriers to HPV Vaccination: A Qualitative Study of Underserved Women Attending Planned Parenthood, 2022, Vaccines

Frequent co-authors associated with Michael L. Hecht include:

  • Hye Jeong Choi (9 collaborations)
  • Shannon D. Glenn (7 collaborations)
  • Michelle Miller-Day (7 collaborations)
  • Kathryn Greene (6 collaborations)
  • Anne E. Ray (6 collaborations)

Michael L. Hecht commonly publishes in venues such as Prevention Science, Contemporary Clinical Trials, Academia Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Prevention Science and Contemporary Clinical Trials each feature two of their publications, with multiple appearances in Academia Letters and Zenodo as well.

Best Publications

  • African American Communication: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Interpretation

    Michael L. Hecht;Mary Jane Collier;Sidney A. Ribeau

  • The Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Satisfaction.

    Michael L. Hecht

  • 2002—a research odyssey: Toward the development of a communication theory of identity

    Michael L. Hecht

  • Elaborating the Communication Theory of Identity: Identity Gaps and Communication Outcomes

    Eura Jung;Michael L. Hecht

  • Culturally Grounded Substance Use Prevention: An Evaluation of the keepin' it R.E.A.L. Curriculum

    Michael L. Hecht;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Elvira Elek;David A. Wagstaff

  • Redefining Culture : Perspectives Across the Disciplines

    John R. Baldwin;Sandra L. Faulkner;Michael L. Hecht;Sheryl L. Lindsley

  • African American Communication : Exploring Identity and Culture

    Michael L Hecht;Ronald L. Jackson;Sidney A. Ribeau

  • The Role of Identity In International Students' Psychological Well-Being In the United States: A Model of Depression Level, Identity Gaps, Discrimination, and Acculturation

    Eura Jung;Michael L. Hecht;Brooke Chapman Wadsworth

  • A model of effects of narrative as culture-centric health promotion.

    Linda K. Larkey;Michael Hecht

  • A COMPONENT MODEL OF RELATIONAL COMPETENCE

    Brian H. Spitzberg;Michael L. Hecht

  • Influences of Personal, Injunctive, and Descriptive Norms on Early Adolescent Substance use:

    Elvira Elek;Michelle Miller-Day;Michael L. Hecht

  • The Role of Identity Gaps, Discrimination, and Acculturation in International Students’ Educational Satisfaction in American Classrooms

    Brooke Chapman Wadsworth;Michael L. Hecht;Eura Jung

  • Ethnic Labels and Ethnic Identity as Predictors of Drug Use among Middle School Students in the Southwest.

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Michael L. Hecht

  • Ethnicity and ethnic identity as predictors of drug norms and drug use among preadolescents in the US Southwest.

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Michael L. Hecht;Stephen Sills

  • Disclosure of sexual abuse by children and adolescents

    Sandra Petronio;Heidi M. Reeder;Michael L. Hecht;Theresa Mon't Ros‐Mendoza

  • Hispanic Cultural Norms for Health-Seeking Behaviors in the Face of Symptoms

    Linda Kathryn Larkey;Michael L. Hecht;Katherine Miller;Carlos Alatorre

  • An Afro‐American perspective on interethnic communication

    Michael L. Hecht;Sidney Ribeau;J. K. Alberts

  • Culture: The missing link in health research.

    M. Kagawa Singer;W. Dressler;S. George;Claudia R. Baquet

  • Measures of Communication Satisfaction

    Michael L. Hecht

  • Narrative means to preventative ends: a narrative engagement framework for designing prevention interventions.

    Michelle Miller-Day;Michael L. Hecht

  • Mexican/Mexican American Adolescents and keepin' it REAL: An Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention Program

    Stephen Kulis;Flavio F. Marsiglia;Elvira Elek;Patricia Dustman

  • Ethnic and gender differences and similarities in adolescent drug use and refusals of drug offers

    Dreama G. Moon;Michael L. Hecht;Kristina M. Jackson;Regina E. Spellers

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio F. Marsiglia
Flavio F. Marsiglia Arizona State University
Kathryn Greene
Kathryn Greene Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John W. Graham
John W. Graham Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Kulis
Stephen Kulis Arizona State University
Kristina M. Jackson
Kristina M. Jackson Brown University
Gregory D. Zimet
Gregory D. Zimet Indiana University
Brian H. Spitzberg
Brian H. Spitzberg San Diego State University
William Gerin
William Gerin Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey Temple
Jeffrey Temple The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Gregory L. Stuart
Gregory L. Stuart University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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