Research Title

Lapinski, M.K., Randall, L., Peterson, M., & Peterson, A. & Klein, K.A., (in press).
Prevention options for positives: Testing the effects of a health communication intervention for men who have sex with men who are HIV positive. Health Communication.

Lapinski, M.K., Rimal, R.N., Klein, K., & Schulman, H. C. (in press). Risk perceptions of people living with HIV/AIDS: How similarity affects optimistic bias. Paper under review at Journal of Health Psychology.

Lapinski, M.K. & Nwulu, P. (2008). Can viewing a short film change HIV-related risk and stigma perceptions? Results from an experiment in Abuja, Nigeria. Health Communication, 23, 403-412.

Kennedy, J., Worosz, M.R., Todd, E.C.D., Lapinski, M.K. (2008). Segmentation of US consumers based on food safety concerns. British Food Journal, 110 (7), 691-706.

Knight, A. J., Worosz, M.R., Lapinski, M.K., Ten Eyck, T.A., Harris, C.K., Bourquin, L.D., Dietz, T.M., Thompson, P.D., Todd, E.C.D. (2008).  Consumer perceptions of the food safety system: Implications for food safety educators and policy makers.  Food Protection Trends 28(6): 27-32.

Lapinski, M.K. & Orbe, M. (2007). Evidence for the construct validity and reliability of a scale measuring the components of co-cultural theory. Communication Methods and Measures, 1(2), 137-164.

Steinke, J., Lapinski, M. K., Crocker, N., Zietsman-Thomas, A., Williams, Y., Higdon, S., & Kuchibhotla, S. (2007). Assessing media influences on middle school-aged children’s perceptions of women in science and engineering using the draw-a-scientist test (DAST). Science Communication, 29 (1), 35-64.

Lapinski, M.K., Rimal, R., DeVries, R., & Lee, E.L. (2007). The role of group orientation and descriptive norms on water conservation attitudes and behaviors. Health Communication, 22, 133-142.