Minich, M., Cotter, L., Kriss, L. A., Lu., L., Yang, S., & Cascio, C.N. (2025). Pictorial warning labels reduce sharing intentions, blunt self-relevance processes elicited by social media posts promoting cannabis edibles. Journal of Communication. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf012
Quick, B. L. & Kriss, L. A. (2025). Examining the influence on organ donation by actor portrayal of altruism on the television show Grey’s Anatomy. Progress in Transplantation. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1526924825134338
Love, B., Ghosh, C., Kriss, L., Vieco-Garcia, M., Fick, H., Shin, E., Wagner, J. H., De Luca, D., Dermid, G., McDonald, L., Caballero, E., Oestman, K., Coffman, R., Aquino, M., Adams, T., Gardiner, H., & Rechis, R. (2024). Building and maintaining a whole community initiative: Health communication in practice with Be Well CommunitiesTM. Health Communication. 39(14), 3597-3605. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2382869
Love, B., Coffman, R., Ghosh, C., Cofer, J., Hurst, A. N., Oestman, K., Aquino, M., Kriss, L., Shah, M., Dermid, G., Raber, M., & Hawk, E. (2024). Implementation and evaluation of a multi‑level, place-based tobacco prevention and control program at a minority-serving institution in Texas. Prevention Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-024-01708-4
Yang, S., Cotter, L. M., Lu, L., Kriss, L. A., Minich, M., Liu, J., Silver, L. D., & Cascio, C. N. (2024). Countering online marketing and user endorsements with enhanced cannabis warning labels: An online experiment among at-risk youth and young adults. Preventive Medicine, 180(107877), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.107877
Yang, F. (Ellie), Pham, B., Zhang, S., & Kriss, L. (2024). Talking about pain plainly: Authentic expression of pain management on Reddit. Health & New Media Research, 8(1), 73–81. https://doi.org/10.22720/hnmr.2024.00038
Quick, B. L., Kriss, L. A., Morrow, E., Hartman, D., & Koester, B. (2024). A test of autonomy restoration postscripts to mitigate psychological reactance to an opt-out organ donor registry in the United States. Health Communication, 39(9), 1714–1726. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2232607
Minich, M., Chang, C.-T., Kriss, L. A., Tveleneva, A., & Cascio, C. N. (2023). Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad069
Yang, E. F., Kriss, L. A., & Sun, Y. (2023). Fun with frustration? TikTok influencers’ emotional expression predicts user engagement with COVID-19 vaccination messages. Health Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2259621
Quick, B. L., Kriss, L. A., Rains, S. A., Sherlock-Jones, M., & Jang, M. (2023). An investigation into the portrayal of organ donation on Grey’s Anatomy seasons 1 through 15. Health Communication, 39(1), 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2163051
Kriss, L. A., Quick, B. L., Rains, S. A., & Barbati, J. L. (2022). Psychological reactance theory and COVID-19 vaccine mandates: The roles of threat magnitude and direction of threat. Journal of Health Communication, 27(9), 654-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2148023
Rains, S. A., Colombo, P. M., Quick, B. L., & Kriss, L. (2022). State mask mandates through the lens of psychological reactance theory: The role of political ideology and COVID-19 risk in mask adoption and resistance. Social Science & Medicine, 314, 115479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115479
Quick, B. L., Glowacki, E. M., Kriss, L. A., & Hartman, D. E. (2021). Raising concussion awareness among amateur athletes: An examination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Heads Up campaign. Health Communication, 38(2), 298-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950295
Thompson, C. M., Romo, L. K., Pulido, M. D., Liao, D., Kriss, L., & Babu, S. (2023) Denying and accepting a family member’s illness: Uncertainty management as a process. Health Communication, 39(4), 844–863. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1964713
Thompson, C. M., Babu, S., Romo, L. K., Pulido, M. D., Liao, D., & Kriss, L. A. (2022). “I changed, I had to realize that I was wrong”: Identity gap management amidst evolving illness uncertainty. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(4), 844–863. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211048253
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