The PRIME lab collaborates to turn our research into accessible manuscripts to help inform practitioners and researchers. Listed below are some of our works:
Keller-Hamilton, B., Stevens, E., Villanti, A., Leshner, G., Wagener, T. & Mays, D. (2023). Messaging to prevent and reduce young adults’ waterpipe tobacco smoking: A randomized trial. Addictive Behaviors, 138, 107546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107546.
Thapaliya, R., Leshner, G., Ghimire, P.S., & Bhochhibhoya, A. (2022). An extension of the extended parallel process model to promote heart-health exercise behavior: An experimental study. Health Promotion Perspectives, 12(4), 358-366. https://doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2022.47.
Kim, N., Leshner, G., & Miller, C. (2022). Native Americans’ responses to obesity attributions and message sources in an obesity prevention campaign. Journal of Health Communication, 27(11/12), 777-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2153289.
Stevens, E. M., Villanti, A. C., Leshner, G., Wagener, T. L., Keller-Hamilton, B. & Mays, D. (2021). Integrating self-report and psychophysiological measures in tobacco message testing: A novel application of multi-attribute decision modeling. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 11814. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211814.
Leshner, G., Phan, L., Stevens, E.M., Johnson, A., Villanti, A., Kim, N., Kim, S., Ma, H., Seo, J., Sun, F., Keller-Hamilton, B., Wagener, T., & Mays, D. (2021). Psychophysiological responses to hookah tobacco public education messages among young adults. Health Psychology, 40(9), 569-577. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001092.
Stevens, E.M., Leshner, G., Cohn, A.M., Kim, S., & Wagener, T.L. (2021). How cannabis use status affects responses to anti-cannabis messages. Cannabis, 4(2), 1-16. (Journal of the Research Society of Marijuana RSMj). https://doi.org/10.26828/cannabis/2021.02.001.
Leshner, G., Stevens, E.M., Cohn, A.M., Kim, S., Kim, N., Wagener, T.L., & Villanti, A.C. (2021). Cognitive and affective responses to marijuana prevention and educational messaging. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 225, 108788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108788.
Stevens, E. M., Hébert, E., Keller-Hamilton, B., Frank-Pearce, S. G., Tackett, A. P., Leshner, G., & Wagener, T. L. (2021). Associations between exposure to The Real Cost campaign, pro-tobacco advertisements, and tobacco use among youth in the United States. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 60(5), 706-710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.11.006.
Phan, L., Villanti, A.C, Leshner, G., Wagener, T., Stevens, E., Johnson, A.C., & Mays, D. (2020). Development and pretesting of hookah tobacco public education messages for young adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 8752. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238752.
Clayton, R.B., Leshner, G., Sanders-Jackson, A., & Hendrickse, J. (2020). When counterarguing becomes the primary task: Examination of dogmatic anti-vaping messages on psychological reactance, available cognitive resources, and memory. Journal of Communication, 70(4), 522-547. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa010.
Stevens, E.M., Johnson, A.L., Leshner, G., Sun, F., Kim, S., Leavens, E.L.S., Tackett, A.P., Hébert, E.T., & Wagener, T.L. (2020). People in e-cigarette ads attract more attention: An eye-tracking study. Tobacco Regulatory Science Journal, 6(2), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.18001%2Ftrs.6.2.3.
Clayton, R. B., Keene, J. R., Leshner, G., Lang, A., & Bailey, R. L. (2020). Smoking status matters: A direct comparison of smokers' and nonsmokers' psychophysiological and self-report responses to secondhand smoke anti-tobacco PSAs. Health Communication, 35(8), 925-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1598741.
Stevens, E.M., Kim, S., Leshner, G., Leavens, E., Vidrine, J., Frank-Pearce, S.G., Hale, J.J., & Wagener, T.L. (2019). The attitudinal and motivational effects of anti-waterpipe messages. American Journal of Health Behavior, 43(3), 478-489. https://doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.43.3.3.
Stevens, E. M., Cohn, A. M., Villanti, A. C., Leshner, G., Wedel, A. & Wagener, T. L. (2019). Perceived effectiveness of anti-marijuana messages in adult users and non-users: An examination of responses to messages about marijuana’s effects on cognitive performance, driving, and health. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 80(4), 415-422. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2019.80.415.
Clayton, R. B., Lang, A., Leshner, G., & Quick, B. (2018). Who fights, who flees?: An integration of the LC4MP and Psychological Reactance Theory. Media Psychology, 22(4), 545-571. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1476157.
Leshner, G., Bolls, P., Gardner, E., Moore, J., & Kreuter, M. (2018). Breast cancer survivor testimonies: Effects of narrative and emotional valence on affect and cognition. Cogent Social Sciences, 4(1), 1426281. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2018.1426281.
Leshner, G., Clayton, R. B., Bolls, P.D., & Bhandari, M. (2018). Deceived, disgusted, and defensive: Motivated processing of anti-tobacco advertisements. Health Communication, 33(10), 1223-1232. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1350908.
Clayton, R.B., Leshner, G., Tomko, R.L, Trull, T.J., & Piasecki, T.M. (2017). Countering craving with disgusting images: Examining nicotine withdrawn smokers’ motivated message processing of anti-tobacco PSAs. Journal of Health Communication, 22(3), 254-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2016.1268222.
Bhaduri, G., Ha-Brookshire, J. E., & Leshner, G. (2017). Too good to be true? Effect of consumers’ brand schemas on apparel brands’ fair labor marketing messages. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 35(3), 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X17693943.
Clayton, R. B., Leshner, G., Bolls, P. D., & Thorson, E. (2017). Discard the smoking cues-keep the disgust: An investigation of tobacco smokers’ motivated processing of anti-tobacco commercials. Health Communication, 32, 1319-1330. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1220042.
Gardner, E., & Leshner, G. (2016). The role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to diabetes self-care messages. Health Communication, 31(6), 738-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2014.993498.
Clayton, R.B., & Leshner, G. (2015). The uncanny valley: The effects of rotoscope animation on motivational processing of depression drug messages. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 59(1), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2014.998227.
Clayton, R., Leshner, G., & Almond, A. (2015). The extended iSelf: The impact of iPhone separation on cognition, emotion, and physiology. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 20, 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12109.
