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Chris Skurka

Penn State University
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Pathways of influence in emotional appeals: Benefits and tradeoffs of using fear or humor to promote climate change-related intentions and risk perceptions

C Skurka, J Niederdeppe… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Though fear appeals have largely been the default emotional appeal to motivate prosocial
behaviors, research indicates that other emotionally charged messages, like those using …

An evaluation of a college campus emergency preparedness intervention

C Skurka, BL Quick, T Reynolds-Tylus, T Short… - Journal of safety …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Given the range of emergencies that beset postsecondary institutions, university
administrators must take a multimodal approach to prepare campus stakeholders for safety …

Effects of varying color, imagery, and text of cigarette package warning labels among socioeconomically disadvantaged middle school youth and adult smokers

S Byrne, A Greiner Safi, D Kemp, C Skurka… - Health …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control
Act) of 2009 paved the way for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to propose nine …

Market-level exposure to state antismoking media campaigns and public support for tobacco control policy in the United States, 2001–2002

J Niederdeppe, M Kellogg, C Skurka… - Tobacco …, 2018 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Objective This study tests whether exposure to state antismoking media campaigns is
associated with increased support for comprehensive bans on smoking indoors and …

Estimated televised alcohol advertising exposure in the past year and associations with past 30‐day drinking behavior among American adults: results from a …

J Niederdeppe, RJ Avery, E Tabor, NW Lee… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To estimate the volume of past‐year televised alcohol advertising exposure by product
category and demographic group among adults living in the United States and test …

Young adults' willingness to engage in climate change activism: An application of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior

AM Gonzalez, T Reynolds-Tylus… - Environmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Guided by the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), the current survey examined
factors associated with climate change activism in a young adult population (N= 627) …

Comparing in person and internet methods to recruit low-SES populations for tobacco control policy research

AG Safi, C Reyes, E Jesch, J Steinhardt… - Social Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tobacco use and the associated consequences are much more prevalent among low-SES
populations in the US However, tobacco-based research often does not include these …

[BOOK][B] Harnessing anger to promote health and environmental activism: Exploring the effectiveness of persuasive counterindustry/anger appeals

CJ Skurka - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Anger is an energizing emotion, motivating individuals to approach the situation to retaliate
against an appraised wrongdoing. The overarching goal of this dissertation was to …