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Examining the Effects of Targeting Health Information to Black Americans
No full textVideo available at: https://youtu.be/FvMzKRrX0vE?si=cO-fznUSmsoYKRJSVideo available at: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/1544cg004In this presentation, Professor Veronica Derricks shares information about ongoing research in which she works with Black community leaders and primary care physicians to develop messaging interventions that will improve clinicians' delivery of targeted communication to Black Americans
Too Close for Comfort: Resisting Relevance as a Lever for Persuasion
No full textObjective: This work investigates how broad principles of persuasion (e.g., the role of relevance) operate in the context of social identities. Although relevance is expected to facilitate persuasion, we use information targeting as a relevance intervention to test whether and why signaling relevance through identities (e.g., race) backfires. Methods: In Study 1, medical practitioners were surveyed about their evaluations and use of information targeting. In Studies 2-5, European Americans and African Americans were told they received information about HIV and/or flu after providing their demographics (targeting condition) or due to chance (control condition). Collectively, these studies tested the direct consequences of increasing relevance via targeting identities (Study 2), the mechanism underlying these consequences (Studies 3-4), whether consequences emerge only when identities are used as a relevance cue (Studies 3-4), and whether perceptions about the source of relevance produces divergent consequences (Study 5). Results: Practitioners reported favorable evaluations and use of information targeting (Study 1). In Studies 2-5, being in the targeting (versus control) condition generally decreased attention to the information and produced more negative source evaluations for African Americans, but not European Americans. Studies 3-4 showed that consequences emerged due to perceptions of being unfairly judged, and only emerged when racial identities are used as a relevance cue (e.g., are tied to information selection). Study 5 revealed that targeting backfires due to increasing recipients’ perceptions that relevance is derived from the research team, rather than increasing personal perceptions of relevance. Conclusions: Leveraging relevance through social identities can preclude the expected benefits of relevance by increasing perceptions of judgment and/or beliefs that relevance is being externally imposed.PhDPsychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155313/1/vderrick_1.pdfDescription of vderrick_1.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
Examining the Effects of Targeting Health Information to Black Americans
No full textVideo available at: https://youtu.be/FvMzKRrX0vE?si=cO-fznUSmsoYKRJSVideo available at: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/1544cg004In this presentation, Professor Veronica Derricks shares information about ongoing research in which she works with Black community leaders and primary care physicians to develop messaging interventions that will improve clinicians' delivery of targeted communication to Black Americans
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Introduction to Veronica Derricks & Her Work
No full textVideo available at: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/hm50vh362Video available at: https://youtu.be/NySmRlvcKZE?si=VXsaDHENQGO4y7Y1Professor Veronica Derricks briefly discusses her translational research that addresses racial disparities in targeted healthcare communication among minority groups
Introduction to Veronica Derricks & Her Work
No full textVideo available at: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/hm50vh362Video available at: https://youtu.be/NySmRlvcKZE?si=VXsaDHENQGO4y7Y1Professor Veronica Derricks briefly discusses her translational research that addresses racial disparities in targeted healthcare communication among minority groups
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Exploring the Moderating Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Relationship Between Inflammation and Cognitive Function
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This study examines the interaction between inflammation, socioeconomic status (SES), and cognitive performance, focusing on working memory as a key cognitive domain. Using data from the Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology, and Emotion (ESCAPE) project, we investigated the moderating role of both objective and subjective SES in the relationship between C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and working memory performance. The sample consisted of 202 adults aged 25-65 (M = 46.46, SD = 11.08) from Bronx County, New York, with varying levels of SES. Multiple regression analyses revealed that lower subjective SES, as measured by the US ladder, combined with higher CRP levels, was associated with improved working memory performance. This effect was not observed for objective SES indicators, such as income and education. Further analyses explored the moderating roles of age, sex, and ethnicity, revealing that low education and higher CRP were linked to better working memory in younger individuals. However, post-hoc adjustments for multiple comparisons rendered most of these effects non-significant. Additional follow-up analyses showed that high income and low basal cytokines predicted better working memory performance, while low subjective SES combined with low stimulated cytokines predicted better working memory in younger individuals. No significant findings were observed for episodic memory. These results suggest that the relationship between inflammation, SES, and cognitive function is complex and may be influenced by both biological and psychosocial factors.</p
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