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Teresa Mastin: Profile

• I (and a co-author) have recently submitted the following manuscript: Mastin, T., & Campo, S. “Conflicting Messages: Overweight and Obesity Advertisements and Articles in Black Magazines,” submitted August 24, 2005 to The Howard Journal of Communications. This manuscript will be presented in November at the APHA conference.
  
  
• Additionally, we are in the process of working on a companion manuscript that focuses on the lack of overweight and obesity related environmental strategies offered in women’s magazines that target Black and White audiences. We hope to have this manuscript out within several weeks.
  
  
• I also have an interest in how direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements are presented to various publics. More specifically, I am interested in knowing whether socioeconomic status impacts what DTC ads are presented to various audiences in various media. I (and several co-authors) am in the process of working on a “revise resubmit” of the following article: Mastin, T., Andsager, J.L., Choi, J. & Lee, K. “Targeting Black and Female Audiences with Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising: A Content Analysis of Magazines, 1992-2002,” Health Communication. This paper was presented earlier this month at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference.
  
  
• Developmental Stage: I am one of numerous co-investigators on a grant that has a goal of obtaining baseline data on elder abuse in the Michigan Medicaid population. I am laying the groundwork this semester for a study that will examine the portrayals of elder abuse in various magazines genres. The purpose of the study is to determine how elder abuse is being framed in popular periodicals directed toward the general public.I am also laying the foundation for a study that will examine how mental illness is covered in Black media.
  
  

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• Lee, D. W., Park, H. S., Lee, T. S., Kim, M. K., & Kim, Y. H. (2006). Korean working adults’ and undergraduate students’ attitudes towards, and self-efficacy in, joining drinking parties. Social Behavior and Personality, 34(3).
  
  
• Kim, M-S., Klingle, R. S., Sharkey, W. F., Park, H. S., Smith, D. H., & Cai, D. (2000). A test of a cultural model of patient-doctor interactions. Communication Monographs, 67(3), 262-283.
  
  
• Park, H. S., Lee, T. S., Lee, D. W., Kim, M. K., & Kim, Y. H. (2005).Participation in alcohol-involved social gatherings: A test of theory of planned behavior in Korea. Paper submitted for publication in Journal of Communication.
  
  

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• Maxwell, Christopher D. and Lori A. Post. (January 2002). An Assessment of Efforts to Prevent Violence Against Women. Post directed Role of Health Campaigns in Violence Prevention measures. Report prepared for the Workshop on Issues in Research on Violence Against Women, Division on Behavioral and Social Science and Education, National Academy of Science Washington, D.C.
  
  

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• Punch, J.L., and Weinstein, B.E. (1996). The Hearing Handicap Inventory: introducing a multimedia version. The Hearing Journal, 49(10), 35-36, 38-40, 44-45
  
  
• Al paper by Punch, J. L., and Holcomb, S.S., Multimedia Hearing Handicap Inventory: Test-retest reliability and clinical utility, is in preparation.
  
  

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• Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam, Nora J. Rifon, and Robert LaRose, “Teens and Online Privacy,” under review at the American Academy of Advertising.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon (2005), “Information Privacy in State Government: Citizen Expectations and Recommendations for Public Policy, “under review at The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
  
  
• Doohwang Lee, Robert LaRose and Nora J. Rifon, “Keeping the Network Safe: A Model of Online Protection Behavior,” under review at Computers in Human Behavior.
  
  
• Robert LaRose, Nora J. Rifon, Doohwang Lee, and Xin Liu (2005), “Evaluation of Existing Online Safety Recommendations: Content Analysis and Theoretical Assessment,” in progress.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon (2005). Information Privacy in State Government: Assessment of the State of Michigan and Recommendations for Public Policy Initiatives. A Report to Governor Jennifer Granholm, in progress.
  
  
• Robert LaRose and Nora J. Rifon, “Promoting i-Safety: Privacy Warning Boxes, Privacy Seals and Online Privacy Behavior,” revised and resubmitted The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
  
  
• Carrie S. Trimble and Nora J. Rifon (2006), “Effects of Consumer Perceptions of Compatibility In Cause-Related Marketing Messages,” International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Spring, in press.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon (2005), “Privacy and Security of Citizen Information: The Role of State Government,” Michigan State University Institute for Public Policy and Social Research Publications.
  
  
• Robert LaRose and Nora J. Rifon (2005), “Your Privacy is Assured – of Being Disturbed: Web sites with and Without Privacy Seals,” New Media and Society, in press.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Robert LaRose and Sejung Marina Choi (2005), “Your Privacy is Sealed: Effects of Privacy Seals on Trust and Personal Disclosures,” Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter, 337-360.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Sejung Marina Choi, Carrie Trimble and Hairong Li (2004), “Congruence Effects in Sponsorship: The Mediating Roles of Sponsor Motive and Credibility,” Journal of Advertising, Spring, 29-42. (Honorable Mention, Journal of Advertising Outstanding Article Award)
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Carrie Hammerman, and Jeff Williams (2003), “Privacy and the Role of the Internet for the Citizens of Michigan: Implications for Consumers, Citizens, and Government,” Cyberstate.org White Paper.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon (2000). Consumer Privacy: A Review and Policy Implications. Report to State of Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Brian E. Mavis, Elizabeth Tucker and Bertram Stoffelmayr (1992), "Health Promotion Services Consumption: Involvement and Program Choice," Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 19, 679-687.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon (1990). Profiling and Targeting MSU Faculty and Staff for Health Promotion Programs. Report to Michigan State University Healthy U.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Hairong Li and Marina Choi (1998), “Patient Acceptance of Advertising on Breast Disease Information Websites: An Exploratory Study,” Proceedings of the American Academy of Advertising conference, Lexington, KY, 187-192.
  
  
• Bonnie B. Reece, Mary Jane Sheffet and Nora J. Rifon (1996), "The Impact of the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act of 1990 on the Use of Light, Natural and Other Key Words in Food Advertisements," Proceedings of the American Marketing Association's Annual Public Policy and Marketing Conference.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon and Molly Catherine Ziske (1995), "Using Weight Loss Products: The Roles of Involvement, Self-efficacy, and Body Image," Proceedings of the American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference, 90-98.
  
  
• Patrice Katrak and Nora J. Rifon (1994), "Slim, Trim and Ever-So-Thin: A Content Analysis of Magazine Advertising Claims for Weight Control Products," Proceedings of the American Academy of Advertising, 113-121.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Bonnie B. Reece and Patrice Katrak (1993), "Consumer Perceptions of "Light," "Natural," and "Diet" in Advertising for Food Products," Proceedings of the American Academy of Advertising, 12-20.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Bonnie B. Reece and Sally A. Harris-Aper (1991), "Television Commercials for Food Products: Implications of Brand Extension Name Claims," Proceedings of the American Academy of Advertising, 24-30.
  
  
• Nora J. Rifon, Laura Bix, Teresa Mastin and Vicki Van Hurley (2004), “Cigarette Warnings and Phantom Smokers: Does Belief in Warnings Relate to Smoking Status?” American Marketing Association Summer Educator’s Conference.
  
  

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• Guttman, N., D. Bocher-Lattimore and C.T. Salmon (1998) "Credibility of Information From Official Sources on HIV/AIDS Transmission." Public Health Reports, 113:465-471
  
  
• Salmon, C.T. and Murray-Johnson, L. (2001) “Communication Campaign Effectiveness: Some Critical Distinctions.” In R. Rice and C.K. Atkin (eds.) Public Communication Campaigns, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  
  
• Recent Grant: Co-Principal Investigator, Vulnerable Medicaid Populations: A Public Policy Assessment of Abuse Reduction. Funded by Medicaid, 2005. Award: $197,946.
  
  
• Recent Grant-Principal Investigator, Michigan’s Program for Background Check. Funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, 2005. Award: $5,000,000.
  
  
• Recent Grant - Co-Principal Investigator, Sexual Assault Surveillance System. Funded by the Michigan Department of Community Health and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005. Award: $28,000.
  
  
• Salmon, C.T. and H. Cho (in press) “Unintended Effects of Fear Appeals on Individuals in Different Stages of Behavior Change.” Health Communication.
  
  
• Guttman, N. and C.T. Salmon (2004) “Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions.” Bioethics, 18(6):531-552.
  
  
• Greenberg, B., Salmon, C., Patel, D., Beck, V., and Cole, G. (2004) “Evolution of an EE Research Agenda.” In Singhal, A., M.J. Cody, E. Rogers and M. Sabido (eds.) Entertainment Education and Social Change: History, Research and Practice. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
  
  
• Wrigley, B., C.T. Salmon and H.S. Park (2003) “Does Wishing Make it So? Crisis Preparedness for Bioterrorism.” Public Relations Review, 29 (3): 281-290.
  
  
• Salmon, C.T. Park, H.S. and Wrigley, B. (2003) “Optimistic Bias, Crisis Preparedness and the Threat of Bioterrorism.” Journal of Health Communication, 8 (S1): 130-143.
  
  

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• Harris, T.M., Silk, K.J., Parrott, R.L., “Media Exposure and Attitudes About Human Genetic Research Manuscript”, presented at the annual meeting of the SSCA in Birmingham, AL.
  
  
• Parrott, R.L., Silk, K.J., Krieger, J., “Family communication about cancer.” Manuscript presented at the annual meeting of ICA in San Diego, CA.
  
  
• Weiner, J., Silk, K., & Parrott, R.L., “‘Gene-talk’: Family communication about human genetics research.” Manuscript presented at the annual meeting of ICA in San Diego, CA.
  
  

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Park, H.S., Smith, S. W., & Yun, D. (in press).  Ethnic Differences in Intention to Enroll in a State Organ Donor Registry and Intention to Talk with Family about Organ Donation, Health Communication.

 Smith, S. W., Munday, S., LaPlante, C., Kotowski, M. R.  Atkin, C.. K., Skubisz, C., & Stohl, C. (in press, 2009).  Topics and Sources of Memorable Breast Cancer Messages: Their Impact on Prevention and Detection Behaviors.  Journal of Health Communication.

Smith, S. W., Atkin, C. K., Munday, S., Skubisz, C., & Stohl, C. (in press).  The impact of personal and/or close relationship experience on memorable messages about breast cancer and the perceived speech acts of the sender.  Journal of Cancer Education.

  Smith, S. W., Lindsey, L. L. M., Kopfman, J. E., Yoo, J., & Morrison, K. (2008).  Predictors of engaging in family discussion about organ donation and getting organ donor cards witnessed.  Health Communication, 23, 1-10.

 Whitten P., Munday, S., LaPlante, C., & Smith, S. W. (2008).  Communication Assessment of the Most Frequented Breast Cancer Websites:  Evaluation of Design and Theoretical Criteria.  Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.

  Smith, S. W., Rosenman, K., Kotowski, M., Glazer, E., McFeters, C., Law, A., & Keesecker, N.  (2008)  Using the EPPM to create and evaluate the effectiveness of brochures to increase the use of hearing protection in farmers and landscape workers.  Journal of Applied Communication Research, 36, 200-218.

Atkin, C. K., Smith, S. W., Ferguson, V. & McFeters, C., (2008).  A comprehensive analysis of breast cancer news coverage in leading media outlets.  Journal of Health Communication, 13, 3-17.

Atkin, C. K., Smith, S. W., Klein, K. Glazer, Ed., & Martell, D. (2008).  In their own words:  Student characterizations of protective behaviors to prevent alcohol harm.  Most of Us:  Report on Social Norms, http://mostofus.org/newsletter/article.php?newsletterID=22&articleID=78.

Park, H. S., & Smith, S. W. (2007). Distinctiveness and Influence of Subjective Norms, Personal Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, and Societal Descriptive and Injunctive Norms on Behavioral Intent: A Case of Two Behaviors Critical to Organ Donation.  Human Communication Research, 33, 194-218.

Smith, S. W., Yoo, J., Farr, A. C., Salmon, C. T. & Miller, V. D. (2007). The Influence of Sex of Student and Instructor on Student Ratings of Instructors: Results from a College of Communication. Women’s Studies in Communication, 30, 64-77.

Bresnahan, M. J., Lee, S. Y., Smith, S. W., Shearman, S. M. Park, C. Y, & Yoo, J. (2007). The Theory of Planned Behavior in willingness to commit to posthumous organ donation in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Health Communication, 21, 201-211.

Smith, S. W., Atkin, C. K., & Roznoswki, J. A.  (2006). Are “Drink Responsibly” alcohol campaigns strategically ambiguous?  Health Communication, 20, 1-11.

Martell, D., Atkin, C. K., Hembroff, L. A., Smith, S. W., Baumer, A. J., & Greenamayer, J. (2006) College Students and “Celebration Drinking.”  Social Norms Review, 1, 10-17.

Smith, S. W., Atkin, C. K., Martell, D., Allen, R., & Hembroff, L. (2006).  A social judgment theory approach to conducting formative research in a social norms campaign.  Communication Theory, 141-152.

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• Whitten, P. (2003). Analysis of Consumer Acceptance Across Three Michigan Telehome Health Projects. Paper presented at the American Telemedicine Association Fall Forum: Remote Telemonitoring & Home Telehealth, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September.
  
  
• Whitten, P., Doolittle, G., & Mackert, M. (2004).  Telehospice in Michigan: Use and patient acceptance.  American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, 21 (3), 191-195.
  
  

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• Chang, K.K, Salmon, C. T., Lee, BK, Choi, J. and Zeldes, G. A. (August 2004). The Influence of Contextual Factors on Media Framing: A Cross-National Study of News Coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada.
  
  
• Chang, K.K., Salmon, C. T., Lee, B.K., Choi, J. and Zeldes, G. A. (May 2004) A Cross-National Study of News Coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Paper was presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
  
  
• Burke, M. & Alumit, G. (October 2001). Does the Geographic Location of a Disease Matter? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA.
  
  

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