Kim Witte
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Kim Witte's Degrees
- PhD Communication University of Pennsylvania
- Masters Communication University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors Communication University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kim Witte is a communications scholar with an emphasis on the area of fear appeals called “scare tactics”. In 2015 Witte is a professor who teaches graduate courses at Michigan State University. Early life and education Witte received her Ph.D. at the University of California.
Kim Witte's Published Works
Published Works
- Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process model (1992) (3101)
- A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns (2000) (2758)
- Fear control and danger control: A test of the extended parallel process model (EPPM) (1994) (1221)
- Predicting risk behaviors: development and validation of a diagnostic scale. (1996) (620)
- Fear as motivator, fear as inhibitor: Using the extended parallel process model to explain fear appeal successes and failures. (1996) (394)
- Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide (2001) (353)
- Fear appeals and persuasion: A review and update of the Extended Parallel Process Model. (2011) (257)
- Preventing the Spread of Genital Warts: Using Fear Appeals to Promote Self-Protective Behaviors (1998) (171)
- The Role of Threat and Efficacy in AIDS Prevention (1991) (149)
- Generating Effective Risk Messages: How Scary Should Your Risk Communication Be? (1995) (122)
- Addressing cultural orientations in fear appeals: promoting AIDS-protective behaviors among Mexican immigrant and African American adolescents and American and Taiwanese college students. (2001) (118)
- Fear, threat, and perceptions of efficacy from frightening skin cancer messages. (1998) (111)
- Can Fear Arousal in Public Health Campaigns Contribute to the Decline of HIV Prevalence? (2006) (103)
- The perception of risk messages regarding electromagnetic fields: extending the extended parallel process model to an unknown risk. (1998) (97)
- Fishing for success: Using the persuasive health message framework to generate effective campaign messages. (1995) (97)
- A theoretically based evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns along the trans-Africa highway in Kenya. (1998) (96)
- The Theory Behind Entertainment-Education (2003) (81)
- Examining the influence of trait anxiety/repression‐sensitization on individuals’ reactions to fear appeals (2000) (80)
- Social Sides of Health Risks: Stigma and Collective Efficacy (2007) (79)
- Drama Theory and Entertainment Education: Exploring the Effects of a Radio Drama on Behavioral Intentions to Limit HIV Transmission in Ethiopia (2007) (76)
- Message and conceptual confounds in fear appeals: The role of threat, fear, and efficacy (1993) (76)
- Preventing Teen Pregnancy Through Persuasive Communications: Realities, Myths, and The Hard-Fact Truths (1997) (74)
- Looking toward the future: health message design strategies. (2003) (74)
- The Contextual Effects of Gender Norms, Communication, and Social Capital on Family Planning Behaviors in Uganda: A Multilevel Approach (2008) (73)
- Testing the Health Belief Model in a Field Study to Promote Bicycle Safety Helmets (1993) (72)
- Creating Fear in a Risky World: Generating Effective Health Risk Messages (2001) (68)
- The Effectiveness of Media Use in Health Education: Evaluation of an HIV/AIDS Radio Campaign in Ethiopia (2005) (67)
- Preventing vehicle crashes with trains at grade crossings: the risk seeker challenge. (2000) (64)
- Managing Fear in Public Health Campaigns: A Theory-Based Formative Evaluation Process (2005) (60)
- Using the Extended Parallel Process Model to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Among Coal Miners in Appalachia (2004) (60)
- Predicting intercultural adaptation and isolation: using the extended parallel process model to test anxiety/uncertainty management theory (2001) (59)
- Using scare tactics to promote safer sex among juvenile detention and high school youth (1995) (58)
- Using informant directed interviews to discover risk orientation: How formative evaluations based in interpretive analysis can improve persuasive safety campaigns (1994) (58)
- Use of postpartum health services in rural uganda: knowledge, attitudes and barriers (2006) (56)
- The Manipulative Nature of Health Communication Research (1994) (53)
- Is Emotional Expression Repression Oppression? Myths of Organizational Affective Regulation (1994) (48)
- An examination of antecedents to coal miners' hearing protection behaviors: a test of the theory of planned behavior. (2008) (45)
- Preventing Tractor-Related Injuries and Deaths in Rural Populations: Using a Persuasive Health Message Framework in Formative Evaluation Research (1992) (45)
- Understanding barriers to preventive health actions for occupational noise-induced hearing loss. (2001) (42)
- A theory of cognition and negative affect: extending Gudykunst and Hammer's theory of uncertainty and anxiety reduction (1993) (35)
- Using persuasive messages to encourage voluntary hearing protection among coal miners. (2005) (35)
- Intercultural and cross-cultural health communication: Understanding people and motivating healthy behaviors. (1995) (35)
- Radon Awareness and Reduction Campaigns for African Americans: A Theoretically Based Evaluation (1998) (33)
- Addressing Underlying Mechanisms to HIV/AIDS Preventive Behaviors in Ethiopia (2002) (31)
- Air Cover and Ground Mobilization: Integrating Entertainment-Education Broadcasts With Community Listening and Service Delivery in India (2003) (28)
- Birth plans and health facility based delivery in rural Uganda. (2006) (27)
- Using Health Education Theories to Explain Behavior Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (2005) (23)
- Development of the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for the Land Transport of Livestock. (2009) (22)
- Preventing HIV Transmission along the Trans-Africa Highway in Kenya: Using Persuasive Message Theory in Formative Education (1998) (21)
- Introduction: Pathways (2013) (19)
- Raising the Alarm and Calming Fears: Perceived Threat and Efficacy During Risk and Crisis (2020) (19)
- The effectiveness of media use in health education: evaluation of an HIV/AIDS radio [corrected] campaign in Ethiopia. (2005) (18)
- Entertainment Education and Social Change The Communicative Dynamics of Social Capital* (2006) (18)
- Using Health Education Theories to Explain Behavior Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (2001) (15)
- Bringing order to chaos: Communication and health (1996) (13)
- Addressing cultural orientations in fear appeals: promoting AIDS-protective behaviors among Hispanic immigrant and African-American adolescents and American and Taiwanese college students. Target of threat. (1998) (9)
- International Health Communication Campaigns in Developing Countries (2011) (8)
- Fear Appeals and Public Health: Managing Fear and Creating Hope (2009) (8)
- eHealth Portals: Who Uses Them and Why? (2010) (6)
- Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale (2016) (6)
- Possessions theory of persuasion: An examination of its basis and range (1993) (5)
- Effective communication in multicultural health care settings: Gary L. Kreps and Elizabeth N. Kunimoto Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994, 146 pp., $36.00 (cloth), $16.95 (paper) (1995) (5)
- Conversations among Coal Miners in a Campaign to Promote Hearing Protection (2009) (4)
- Notes from the field: does publishing in academic journals make a difference? (1996) (4)
- Extended Parallel Process Model (2008) (4)
- Perceptions of condoms and barriers to condom use along the Trans-Africa highway in Kenya (1999) (3)
- In-depth interviews: The effect of culture and environment on the behaviour of Namibian youth. Report by Research Facilitation Services. (2003) (2)
- Fear Appeals and Public Health (2009) (2)
- Looking toward the future of clinical trials: The application of communication variables to the recruitment of women into breast cancer clinical trials (2001) (2)
- Social change interventions in public health communications. (2006) (1)
- Journey of Life: A Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning in Ethiopia (2005) (1)
- Summative evaluation of "Journey of Life": the Ethiopia reproductive health communication project. (2003) (1)
- Managing Fear to Promote Healthy Change (2012) (1)
- Trusting practitioners and trusting partners: a test to determine whether HIV prevention in Namibia is as easy as saying the ABCs (2011) (1)
- Where is Matthew? The third pillar pensions of Belgium legally examined (2007) (0)
- Nouvel arsenal contre la discrimination (2007) (0)
- Pharmaceutical Price Differences and Price Control Policies: A Hedonic Analysis (2013) (0)
- The impact of relational dimensions of risk communication on infertility patients’ risk perceptions (1992) (0)
- Preventing AIDS through Persuasive Communication Measure (2018) (0)
- Education Diplomacy in Action: Educational Diplomacy and Community Action: Defining Needs and Negotiating Action (2015) (0)
- Langer werken of de welvaart beter verdelen, that's the question (2015) (0)
- The Matthew Effect: Why Current Pension Policy Helps the Rich Get Richer (2009) (0)
- Evaluation of print HIV / AIDS prevention campaign materials in Kenya. Final draft: MSU / AMREF focus group protocol. (1995) (0)
- Imagining the Ideal Pension System for Belgium: Why Goals and Approaches Vary across Countries (2010) (0)
- A Guide to Developments and Directions (2010) (0)
- The Ideal Pension System for Belgium (2011) (0)
- Book Review (2004) (0)
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