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Meghan Bridgid Moran

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Verified email at jhu.edu
Cited by 3475

Hidden addiction: television

S Sussman, MB Moran - Journal of behavioral addictions, 2013 - akjournals.com
Background and aims The most popular recreational pastime in the US is television viewing.
Some researchers have claimed that television may be addictive. We provide a review of the …

Involved, transported, or emotional? Exploring the determinants of change in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in entertainment-education

ST Murphy, LB Frank, MB Moran… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This study examined how 3 constructs—involvement with a specific character, involvement
with the narrative (Green and Brock's construct of transportation), and viewers' emotional …

Longitudinal risk communication: A research agenda for communicating in a pandemic

J Sutton, Y Rivera, TK Sell, MB Moran… - Health …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
In this paper, we present a research agenda for longitudinal risk communication during a
global pandemic. Starting from an understanding that traditional approaches to risk …

Telling stories, saving lives: creating narrative health messages

LB Frank, ST Murphy, JS Chatterjee… - Health …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Increasingly, health communication practitioners are exploring the use of narrative
storytelling to convey health information. For this study, a narrative film was produced to …

What makes anti-vaccine websites persuasive? A content analysis of techniques used by anti-vaccine websites to engender anti-vaccine sentiment

MB Moran, M Lucas, K Everhart, A Morgan… - … of Communication in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Anti-vaccine sentiment can be extremely resistant to change, making it difficult to promote
childhood vaccines. Thus, there is a need for effective strategies to communicate the …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with COVID-19 skepticism in the United States

CA Latkin, L Dayton, M Moran, JC Strickland… - Current …, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 skepticism can be conceptualized as the denial of the seriousness of the illness
and the perception that the pandemic is overblown or a hoax. In the current study, we …

Empirical approaches to measuring the intelligibility of different varieties of English in predicting listener comprehension

O Kang, RI Thomson, M Moran - Language Learning, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study compared five research‐based intelligibility measures as they were applied to six
varieties of English. The objective was to determine which approach to measuring …

Receptivity to tobacco advertising and susceptibility to tobacco products

JP Pierce, JD Sargent, MM White, N Borek… - …, 2017 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: Wave 1 of the nationally representative PATH (Population Assessment of
Tobacco and Health) study interviewed 10 751 adolescents who had never used tobacco. A …

Comparing the relative efficacy of narrative vs nonnarrative health messages in reducing health disparities using a randomized trial

ST Murphy, LB Frank, JS Chatterjee… - … Journal of Public …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We compared the relative efficacy of a fictional narrative film to a more traditional
nonnarrative film in conveying the same health information. Methods. We used a random …

Low-income minority seniors' enrollment in a cybercafé: psychological barriers to crossing the digital divide

Y Jung, W Peng, M Moran, SAA Jin… - Educational …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Investigated were why some low income, predominantly immigrant seniors (n= 91) choose
to enroll in free training and start to use computers and the Internet while others choose not …