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Overview

Sheila T. Murphy is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and health professions, focusing substantially on the intersection of media influence and health behavior.

Their recent publications address various aspects of health communication and behavioral interventions, highlighting topics such as vaccine coverage, psychological perspectives, and technology adoption. Notable recent papers include:

  • Testing the Effectiveness of Message Framing and Episodic Future Thinking in Promoting HPV Vaccination via Anticipated Regret (2020, Health Communication)
  • Comparing "Individual Health" Message Framing to "Organizational Efficiency" Message Framing to Encourage Adoption of Wearable Health Technologies at Work (2020, American Journal of Health Promotion)
  • A Culturally Tailored Narrative Decreased Resistance to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Latinas (2022, American Journal of Health Promotion)
  • Community-Based Public Health Vaccination Campaign (VaccinateLA) in Los Angeles' Black and Latino Communities: Protocol for a Participatory Study (2023, JMIR Research Protocols)
  • Can Narratives Increase Compliance? (2021, Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications)

Murphy's frequent coauthors include Ashley Phelps, Hye Min Kim, eunjin Kim, Jillian K. Kwong, and Ignacio Cruz. This collaborative network suggests engagement across diverse aspects of public health communication and intervention strategies.

Their publications often appear in specialized venues such as the American Journal of Health Promotion, Health Communication, JMIR Research Protocols, Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications, and The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication.

The main fields of study encompassed in Murphy's work are social sciences and health professions, with subfields focusing on sociology and political science, general health professions, literature and literary theory, applied psychology, and broader health issues. The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Media Influence and Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

Murphy's work integrates interdisciplinary approaches to studying communication strategies around health behaviors, emphasizing message framing and narrative techniques to affect health outcomes and technology adoption. This research contributes to understanding how various communication modalities influence public health decisions in diverse populations.

Best Publications

  • Affect, cognition, and awareness: affective priming with optimal and suboptimal stimulus exposures.

    Sheila T. Murphy;R. B. Zajonc

  • Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Patient Autonomy

    Leslie J. Blackhall;Sheila T. Murphy;Gelya Frank;Vicki Michel

  • Narrative versus Nonnarrative: The Role of Identification, Transportation, and Emotion in Reducing Health Disparities

    Sheila T. Murphy;Lauren B. Frank;Joyee S. Chatterjee;Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati

  • Feeling and facial efference: implications of the vascular theory of emotion.

    R. B. Zajonc;Sheila T. Murphy;Marita Inglehart

  • Subliminal Mere Exposure: Specific, General, and Diffuse Effects

    Jennifer L. Monahan;Sheila T. Murphy;R.B. Zajonc

  • Ethnicity and attitudes towards life sustaining technology.

    Leslie J Blackhall;Gelya Frank;Sheila T Murphy;Vicki Michel

  • How to unring the bell: A meta-analytic approach to correction of misinformation

    Nathan Walter;Sheila T. Murphy

  • Involved, Transported, or Emotional? Exploring the Determinants of Change in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior in Entertainment Education

    Sheila T. Murphy;Lauren B. Frank;Meghan B. Moran;Paula Patnoe-Woodley

  • Additivity of nonconscious affect: combined effects of priming and exposure.

    Sheila T. Murphy;Jennifer L. Monahan;R. B. Zajonc

  • Convergence in the physical appearance of spouses

    R. B. Zajonc;Pamela K. Adelmann;Sheila T. Murphy;Paula M. Niedenthal

  • Priming Prejudice How Stereotypes and Counter‐Stereotypes Influence Attribution of Responsibility and Credibility among Ingroups and Outgroups

    J. Gerard Power;Sheila T. Murphy;Gail Coover

  • Ethnicity and Advance Care Directives

    Sheila T. Murphy;Joycelynne M. Palmer;Stanley Azen;Gelya Frank

  • Does Entertainment-Education Work With Latinos in the United States? Identification and the Effects of a Telenovela Breast Cancer Storyline

    Holley A. Wilkin;Thomas W. Valente;Sheila Murphy;Michael J. Cody

  • Entertainment-education in a media-saturated environment: examining the impact of single and multiple exposures to breast cancer storylines on two popular medical dramas.

    Heather J Hether;Grace C Huang;Vicki Beck;Sheila T Murphy

  • Telling Stories, Saving Lives: Creating Narrative Health Messages

    Lauren B. Frank;Sheila T. Murphy;Joyee S. Chatterjee;Meghan B. Moran

  • Bioethics in a different tongue: The case of truth-telling

    Leslie J. Blackhall;Gelya Frank;Sheila Murphy;Vicki Michel

  • Predictors of Emergency Preparedness and Compliance.

    Sheila T Murphy;Michael Cody;Lauren B Frank;Deborah Glik

  • It's better to give than to receive: the role of social support, trust, and participation on health-related social networking sites.

    Heather J Hether;Sheila T Murphy;Thomas W Valente

  • More than a Media Moment: The Influence of Televised Storylines on Viewers’ Attitudes toward Transgender People and Policies

    Traci K. Gillig;Erica L. Rosenthal;Sheila T. Murphy;Kate Langrall Folb

  • A Discourse of Relationships in Bioethics: Patient Autonomy and End‐of‐Life Decision Making among Elderly Korean Americans

    Gelya Frank;Leslie J. Blackhall;Vicki Michel;Sheila T. Murphy

  • Comparing the Relative Efficacy of Narrative vs Nonnarrative Health Messages in Reducing Health Disparities Using a Randomized Trial

    Sheila T. Murphy;Lauren B. Frank;Joyee S. Chatterjee;Meghan B. Moran

  • Inference Under the Influence: The Impact of Alcohol and Inhibition Conflict on Women's Sexual Decision Making

    Sheila T. Murphy;Jennifer L. Monahan;Lynn C. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati University of Southern California
Lynn C. Miller
Lynn C. Miller University of Southern California
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California
Gary Marks
Gary Marks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert B. Zajonc
Robert B. Zajonc Stanford University
Michael J. Cody
Michael J. Cody University of Southern California
Nicole Crepaz
Nicole Crepaz Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Deborah C. Glik
Deborah C. Glik University of California, Los Angeles
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Steve Sussman
Steve Sussman University of Southern California

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