Risk perception refers to people’s subjective judgments about the likelihood of negative
occurrences such as injury, illness, disease, and death. Risk perception is important in health …

Critics suggest that contemporary consumer culture creates overworked and overshopped
consumers who no longer engage in civic life. The authors challenge this conventional …

This study examined the roles of cultural (Hofstede’s Masculinity value dimension—ie,
Gender of Nations), country-level (Gender-related Development Index), and execution-level (…

As one of the most visible and powerful media institutions of US popular culture, advertising
plays a central role in conveying and disseminating a dominant racial ideology. After …

This study analyzed a social media campaign promoting child welfare to explore the
associations among people's social media use, their engagement with different social media …

We present an accurate measurement and a quantitative analysis of electron-beam-induced
displacements of carbon atoms in single-layer graphene. We directly measure the atomic …

Recent natural and human-caused disasters have awakened public health officials to the
importance of emergency preparedness. Guided by health behavior and media effects theories…

E-cigarettes are widely promoted on the Internet, but little is known about what kinds of
information about them are available online. This study examines message, source, and health …

Focusing on several message features that are prominent in antismoking campaign literature,
this content-analytic study examines 934 antismoking video clips on YouTube for the …

The structure and the electrical, mechanical and optical properties of few-layer graphene (FLG)
synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on a Ni-coated substrate were studied. …