Message Laboratory Represented at 2017 Conferences

The Message Laboratory staff had an active spring, with presentations at three conferences and symposia.  Holli presented papers resulting from her work on women’s risk perceptions and mammography decision-making at the annual conference of the International Communication Association and the DC Health Communication Conference, and Marisa presented her research on public commentary surrounding adoption policy at the MSU Undergraduate Research Symposium:

• Seitz, H. H. (2017, May). Effects of online mammography news commentary: Comment characteristics shape reader risk perceptions.  Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
• Seitz, H. H., Gibson, L., Skubisz, C., Mello, S., Schapira, M. M., Armstrong, K., & Cappella, J. N. (2017, April). Immediate and long-term effects of a risk-based online mammography decision intervention on predictors of mammography behavior.  Paper presented at the DC Health Communication Conference, Fairfax, VA.
• Laudadio, M. & Seitz, H. (2017, April). Voices of Adoption: Analysis of Comments on Proposed International Adoption Rule.  Poster presented at Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State, MS.