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D-Index
47
Citations
10258
World Ranking
3367
National Ranking
1622

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sharon Dunwoody is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a specialization in sociology and political science. Their research topics frequently address risk perception and management, climate change communication and perception, and misinformation and its impacts.

The scientist has published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Media and Communication

Their recent publications include:

  • Science Journalism and Pandemic Uncertainty, 2020, Media and Communication
  • Book Review: Kostas Kampourakis and Kevin McCain, Uncertainty. How It Makes Science Advance, 2020, Public Understanding of Science
  • Book review: Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, with Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani and Peter Broks (eds), Communicating Science. A Global Perspective, 2021, Public Understanding of Science

Sharon Dunwoody was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Proposed model of the relationship of risk information seeking and processing to the development of preventive behaviors.

    Robert J. Griffin;Sharon Dunwoody;Kurt Neuwirth

  • Information Sufficiency and Risk Communication

    Robert J. Griffin;Kurt Neuwirth;Sharon Dunwoody;James Giese

  • After the Flood : Anger, Attribution, and the Seeking of Information

    Robert Griffin;Zheng Yang;Ellen F. J. ter Huurne;Francesca Boerner

  • Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science.

    Sharon M. Friedman;Sharon Dunwoody;Carol L. Rogers

  • Protection motivation and risk communication

    Kurt Neuwirth;Sharon Dunwoody;Robert J. Griffin

  • Linking the Heuristic-Systematic Model and Depth of Processing:

    Robert J. Griffin;Kurt Neuwirth;James Giese;Sharon Dunwoody

  • User Control and Structural Isomorphism or Disorientation and Cognitive Load

    William P. Eveland;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Interactions with the mass media

    Hans Peter Peters;Dominique Brossard;Suzanne de Cheveigné;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Mass media coverage of technological and environmental risks: a survey of research in the United States and Germany:

    Sharon Dunwoody;Hans Peter Peters

  • An Investigation of Elaboration and Selective Scanning as Mediators of Learning From the Web Versus Print

    William P. Eveland;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk

    Lee Ann Kahlor;Sharon Dunwoody;Robert J. Griffin;Kurt Neuwirth

  • Studying heuristic-systematic processing of risk communication.

    Lee Ann Kahlor;Sharon Dunwoody;Robert J. Griffin;Kurt Neuwirth

  • Examining Information Processing on the World Wide Web Using Think Aloud Protocols

    William P. Eveland;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Science journalism: prospects in the digital age

    Sharon Dunwoody

  • Scientists worry about some risks more than the public

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Elizabeth A. Corley;Sharon Dunwoody;Tsung-Jen Shih

  • Scientists, journalists, and the meaning of uncertainty.

    Sharon Dunwoody

  • Science-Media Interface It's Time to Reconsider

    Hans Peter Peters;Dominique Brossard;Suzanne de Cheveigné;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Scientific Barriers to the Popularization of Science in the Mass Media.

    Sharon Dunwoody;Michael Ryan

  • How Web Site Organization Influences Free Recall, Factual Knowledge, and Knowledge Structure Density

    William P. Eveland;Juliann Cortese;Heesun Park Park;Sharon Dunwoody

  • Interactivity, Information Processing, and Learning on the World Wide Web.

    Mark Tremayne;Sharon Dunwoody

  • YouTube, Social Norms and Perceived Salience of Climate Change in the American Mind

    James T. Spartz;Leona Yi-Fan Su;Robert J. Griffin;Dominique Brossard

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Brossard
Dominique Brossard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dietram A. Scheufele
Dietram A. Scheufele University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ellen Wartella
Ellen Wartella Northwestern University
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Donald T. Stuss
Donald T. Stuss University of Toronto
Steven A. Ackerman
Steven A. Ackerman University of Wisconsin–Madison

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