Shi, W., Nagler, R.N., Yzer, M., & Rothman, A.J. (Accepted for publication). Effects of exposure to conflicting information about mammography on cancer information overload, perceived scientists’ credibility, and perceived journalists’ credibility. Health Communication.
Yzer, M. (Accepted for publication). Theories of reasoned action and planned behavior. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of health communication. Wiley.
Fridman, I., Southwell, B.G., Yzer, M., & Stephenson, M. T. (2022). Advancing health communication research: Issues and controversies in research design and data analysis. In T.L. Thompson & N. Harrington (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of health communication (vol. 3, pp. 558-571). Routledge. Htpps://10.4324/9781003043379-45
This is a substantive revision of Stephenson, M. T., Southwell, B., & Yzer, M. C. (2011). Advancing health communication research to the next level: Issues and controversies in experimental design and data analysis. In T.L. Thompson, R.L. Parrott, & J. Nussbaum (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of health communication (vol. 2, pp. 560-577). New York: Routledge.
Yzer, M., Rhodes, K., Nagler, R., & Joseph, A. (2021). Effects of culturally tailored smoking prevention and cessation messages on urban American Indian youth. Preventive Medicine Reports.
Nagler, R.H., Vogel, R.I., Gollust, S.E., Yzer, M.C., & Rothman, A.J. (2021). Effects of prior exposure to conflicting health information on responses to subsequent unrelated health messages: Results from a population-based longitudinal experiment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Yzer, M., Kinzer*, H., & Mallone*, M. (2021). A reasoned action approach to depression help-seeking messaging for college students: Implications of cognitive biases in depression. Health Communication. Advance online publication. htpps://10.1080/10410236.20221.1917744
Yzer, M.C., & Nagler, R.H. (2021). Theories of behavior. In T. Thompson & P.J. Schulz (Eds.), Health communication theory (pp. 178-199). Wiley/Blackwell.
Zhu, X. & Yzer, M. (2021). Understanding self-affirmation effects: The moderating role of self-esteem. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26, 1016-1039. htpps://10.1111/bjhp.12517
Nagler, R.H., Vogel, R.I., Gollust, S.E., Rothman, A.J., Franklin Fowler, E., & Yzer, M.C. (2020). Public perceptions of conflicting information surrounding COVID-19: Results from a nationally representative survey among U.S. adults. PLoS ONE, 15(10), e0240776. htpps://10.1371/journal.pone.0240776
Gollust, S.E., Vogel, R.I., Rothman, A., Yzer, M., Franklin Fowler, E., & Nagler, R.H. (2020). Americans’ perceptions of disparities in COVID-19 mortality: Results from a nationally-representative survey. Preventive Medicine, 141. htpps://10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106278
Hendriks, H., & Yzer, M. (2019). Is involvement a good thing? The undesirable consequences of topical and conversational involvement in the context of alcohol consumption. Journal of Health Communication. Advance online publication. htpps:// 10.1080/10810730.2019.1701587
Han, J., & Yzer, M. (2019). Media-induced misperception further divides public opinion: A test of self-categorization theory of attitude polarization. Journal of Media Psychology. Advance online publication. htpps://10.1027/1864-1105/a000259
Zhu, X. & Yzer, M. (2019). Testing a brief scale format self-affirmation induction for use in health communication research and practice. Communication Methods & Measurement, 13, 178-197. htpps://10.1080/19312458.2019.1572084
*Zhu, X., & Yzer, M.C. (2019). Ends over means: Self-affirmation strengthens attitudinal and weakens perceived control effects on behavioral intention. Media Psychology, 22, 351-372. htpps://10.1080/15213269.2017.1282875
Yzer, M., & *Gilasevitch, J. (2019). Beliefs underlying stress reduction and depression help-seeking among college students: An elicitation study. Journal of American College Health, 67, 153-160. htpps://10.1080/07448481.2018.1462828
Noar, S. M., Barker, J., Bell, T., & Yzer, M. (2019). Does perceived message effectiveness predict the actual effectiveness of tobacco education messages? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Communication, 45, 148-157. htpps://10.1080/10410236.2018.1547675
Nagler, R.N., Yzer, M.C., & Rothman, A. (2018). Effects of media exposure to conflicting information about mammography: Results from a population-based survey experiment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 53(10), 896-908. htpps://10.1093/abm/kay098
Yzer, M., Rhodes, K., McCann, M., *Harjo, J., Nagler, R. N., LoRusso, S., & Gollust, S. (2018). Effects of cultural cues on perceptions of HPV vaccination messages among parents and guardians of American Indian youth. Preventive Medicine, 115, 104-109. htpps:// 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.08.021
Noar, S. M., *Bell, T., Kelley, D., *Barker, J., & Yzer, M. (2018). Perceived message effectiveness of anti-tobacco advertisements: A systematic review. Communication Methods & Measurement, 12, 295-313. htpps://10.1080/19312458.2018.1483017
Yzer, M., *Han, J., & Choi, K. (2017). Eye movement patterns in response to anti-binge drinking messages. Health Communication, 33, 1454-1461. htpps://10.1080/10410236.2017.1359032
Yzer, M. (2017). Reasoned action as an approach to understanding and predicting health message outcomes. In R. Parrott (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing. New York: Oxford University Press. htpps:// 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.255
*Lueck, J., & Yzer, M.C. (2017). Explaining intentions to seek help for depressive symptoms in the context of responsibility message framing. Health Communication. Advance online publication. htpps://10.1080/10410236.2017.1322857
Yzer, M. (2017). Theory of reasoned action/Theory of planned behavior. In P. Rossler, C. Hoffner, & L. van Zoonen (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Media Effects (pp. 1-7). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. htpps://10.1002/9781118783764.wbieme0075
Yzer, M., Weisman, S., Mejia, N., Hennrikus, D., Choi, K., & Desimone, S. (2015). Informing tobacco cessation benefit use interventions for unionized blue-collar workers: A mixed methods reasoned action approach. Prevention Science, 16, 811-821. htpps://10.1007/s11121-015-0566-7
Yzer, M.C., *LoRusso, S., & Nagler, R.H. (2015). On the conceptual ambiguity surrounding perceived message effectiveness. Health Communication, 30, 125-134. htpps:// 10.1080/10410236.2014.974131
Yzer, M.C., & van den Putte, B. (2014). Control perceptions moderate attitudinal and normative effects on intention to quit smoking. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. htpps:// 10.1037/a0037924
Yzer, M. (2014). Theory of planned behavior. In T. L. Thompson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Communication – Volume 3 (pp. 1394-1395). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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*LoRusso, S., & Yzer, M. (2014). Measurement: Message quality. In T. L. Thompson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Communication – Volume 2 (pp. 798-801). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
*Ramsey, I.S., Yzer, M.C., Luciana, M., Vohs, K.D., & McDonald, A.W. (2013). Affective and executive network processing associated with persuasive anti-drug messages. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1136-1147. htpps://10.1162/jocn_a_00391
Yzer, M.C. Reasoned action theory. (2013). In J.P. Dillard & L. Shen (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice - 2nd edition (pp. 120-136). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Yzer, M.C., Southwell, B.G., & Stephenson, M.T. (2013). Inducing fear as a public communication campaign strategy. In R.E. Rice & C.K. Atkin (Eds.), Public Communication Campaigns-4th edition (pp. 163-176). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Yzer, M.C. (2012). Perceived behavioral control in reasoned action theory: A dual aspect interpretation. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 640, 101-117. htpps://10.1177/0002716211423500
Yzer, M.C. (2012). The integrated model of behavioral prediction as a tool for designing health messages. In H. Cho (Ed.), Designing Messages for Health Communication Campaigns: Theory and Practice (pp. 21-40). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Yzer, M.C., Vohs, K.D., Luciana, M., Cuthbert, B.N., & McDonald, A.W. (2011). Affective antecedents of the perceived effectiveness of antidrug advertisements: An analysis of adolescents’ momentary and retrospective evaluations. Prevention Science, 12, 278-288. htpps://10.1007/s11121-011-0212-y
Yzer, M.C., & Southwell, B.G. (2011). Reasoned action frameworks. In Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
Van den Putte, B., Yzer, M., Southwell, B.G., de Bruijn, G.J., & Willemsen, M. (2011). Interpersonal communication as an indirect pathway for the impact of antismoking media content on smoking cessation. Journal of Health Communication, 16, 470-485. htpps://10.1080/10810730.2010.546487
Stephenson, M. T., Southwell, B., & Yzer, M. C. (2011). Advancing health communication research to the next level: Issues and controversies in experimental design and data analysis. In T.L. Thompson, R.L. Parrott, & J. Nussbaum (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of health communication (vol. 2, pp. 560-577). New York: Routledge.
*Lutchyn, Y., & Yzer, M. (2011). Construal level theory and theory of planned behavior: Time frame effects on salient belief generation. Journal of Health Communication, 16, 595-606. htpps://10.1080/10810730.2011.551991
Yzer, M. (2010).The impact of the work of Martin Fishbein on health issues in the world. Health Communication, 25, 625-627. htpps://10.1080/10410236.2010.496840
Barrett, D.W., Cappella, J., Fishbein, M., Yzer, M., & *Ahern, R.K. (2010). Measuring the effectiveness of anti-drug Public Service Announcements. In M.B. Hinner (Ed.), Freiberger Beitraege zur Interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation: A Forum for General and Intercultural Business Communication, Volume 6. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Lang.
Van den Putte, B., Yzer, M., Willemsen, M., & de Bruijn, G.J. (2009). The effects of smoking self-identity and quitting self-identity on attempts to quit smoking. Health Psychology, 28, 535-544. htpps://10.1037/a0015199
Southwell, B.G., & Yzer, M.C. (2009). When (and why) interpersonal talk matters for campaigns. Communication Theory, 19, 1-8. htpps://10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.01329.x
Yzer, M.C., & Southwell, B.G. (2008). New technologies, old questions. American Behavioral Scientist, 52, 8-20. htpps://10.1177/0002764208321338
Yzer, M.C., Fishbein, M., & Hennessy, M. (2008). HIV interventions affect behavior indirectly: Results from the AIDS Community Demonstration Projects. AIDS Care, 20, 456-461. htpps://10.1080/09540120701867024
Yzer, M.C. (2008). The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction and message-based HIV prevention. In P.H. Swanepoel & H. Hoeken (Eds.), Adapting health communication to cultural needs: Optimizing documents in South African health communication on HIV/AIDS (pp. 49-69). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Southwell, B.G., *Boudewyns, V., *Hwang, Y., & Yzer, M.C. (2008). Sensation versus information: The surprising role of beliefs about local TV news. Electronic News, 2, 123-137. htpps://10.1080/19312430802213043
Yzer, M.C., Fishbein, M., & Cappella, J.N. (2007). Using behavioral theory to investigate routes to persuasion for segmented groups: A case study of adolescent drug use. In M.B. Hinner (Ed.), Freiberger Beitraege zur Interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation: A Forum for General and Intercultural Business Communication, Volume 3 (pp. 297-320). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Lang.
Yzer, M.C. (2007). Does perceived control moderate attitudinal and normative effects on intention? A review of conceptual and methodological issues. In I. Ajzen, D. Albarracin & R. Hornik (Eds.), Prediction and change of health behavior: Applying the reasoned action approach (pp. 107-123). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Southwell, B.G., & Yzer, M.C. (2007). The roles of interpersonal communication in mass media campaigns. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 31 (pp. 419-462). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yzer, M.C. & van den Putte, B. (2006). Understanding smoking cessation: The role of smokers’ quit history. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 356-361. htpps://10.1037/0893-164X.20.3.356
ten Berg, B., van den Putte, B., Yzer, M.C., & Willemsen, M.C. (2006). Het verschil in gedragsdeterminanten van tijdelijke en succesvolle pogingen om met roken te stoppen. [The difference in behavioral determinants of successful and unsuccessful smoking cessation attempts.] Gedrag & Gezondheid, 5, 344-360. htpps://10.1007/BF03071145
Van den Putte, B., Yzer, M.C., *Brunsting, S. & Willemsen, M.C. (2005). Sociale invloeden op stoppen met roken. [Social influences on smoking cessation intention.] Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 33, 262-272.
Van den Putte, B., Yzer, M.C. & *Brunsting, S. (2005). Social influences on smoking cessation: A comparison of the effect of six social influence variables. Preventive Medicine, 41, 186-193. htpps://10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.09.040
Yzer, M.C., Hennessy, M. & Fishbein, M. (2004). The usefulness of perceived difficulty for health research. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 9, 149-162.
Yzer, M.C., Cappella, J.N., Fishbein, M., Hornik, R., *Sayeed, S. & *Ahern, R.K. (2004). The role of distal variables in behavior change: Effects of adolescents’ risk for marijuana use on intention to use marijuana. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1229-1250. htpps://10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02005.x
*Gorter, M. & Yzer, M.C. (2004). Television advertisement avoidance reconsidered: The role of different avoidance behaviors, program relevance and viewing contexts. In P. Neijens, E. Smit, B. van den Putte & C. Hess (Eds.), Context and Media Factors in Advertising (pp. 136-147). Amsterdam: Spinhuis Press.
Fishbein, M., Hennessy, M., Yzer, M.C. & Johnson, B. (2004). Romance and risk: Romantic attraction and health risks in the process of relationship formation. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 9, 273-285. htpps://10.1080/13548500410001721846
Yzer, M.C., Cappella, J.N., Fishbein, M., Hornik, R. & *Ahern, R.K. (2003). The effectiveness of gateway communications in anti-marijuana campaigns. Journal of Health Communication, 8, 1-15. htpps://10.1080/10810730305695
Yzer, M.C. (2003). Naar effectieve gezondheidscommunicatie: Een verandering – activatiemodel. [Towards effective health communication: A change – prime model.] Gedrag & Gezondheid, 5, 323-334.
Fishbein, M. & Yzer, M.C. (2003). Using theory to design effective health behavior interventions. Communication Theory, 13, 164-183. htpps://10.1111/j.1468-2885.2003.tb00287.x
Fishbein, M., Hennessy, M., Yzer, M.C. & Douglas, J. (2003). Can we explain why some people do and some people do not act on their intentions? Psychology, Health and Medicine, 8, 3-18. htpps://10.1080/1354850021000059223
Cappella, J.N., Yzer, M.C. & Fishbein, M. (2003). Using beliefs about positive and negative consequences as the basis for designing message interventions for lowering risky behavior. In D. Romer (Ed.). Reducing adolescent risk. Toward an integrated approach (pp. 210-219). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fishbein, M., Hornik, R., Cappella, J.N., *Sayeed, S., Yzer, M.C., & *Ahern, R.K. (2002). The role of theory in developing effective antidrug public service announcements. In W.D. Crano, D. William & M. Burgoon (Eds.). Mass media and drug prevention: Classic and contemporary theories and research (pp. 89-117). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (2001). Bringing up condom use and using condoms with new sexual partners: Intentional or habitual? Psychology & Health, 16, 409-421. htpps://10.1080/08870440108405516
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (2000). Can public campaigns effectively change psychological determinants of safer sex? An evaluation of three Dutch safer sex campaigns. Health Education Research, 15, 339-352. htpps://10.1093/her/15.3.339
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (1999c). Sociale vergelijkingsprocessen in de context van veilig vrijen: Affectieve reacties, risicopercepties en gedragsverwachtingen. [Social comparison processes in the context of safer sex: Affective reactions, risk perceptions and behavioral expectations.] In R.M. Meertens, R. Vermunt, J.B.F. de Wit & J.F. Ybema (Eds.), Sociale psychologie en haar toepassingen, Vol. XIII (pp. 1-15). Delft, the Netherlands: Eburon.
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (1999b). De invloed van eerder condoomgebruik op intenties veilig te vrijen: Een studie onder personen met wisselende seksuele contacten. [The impact of prior condom use on intentions to use condoms: A study among people with casual partners.] Gedrag & Gezondheid, 27, 125-135.
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (1999a). Effecten op termijn: De stand van zaken rond veilig vrijen een jaar na uitvoering van de algemene campagne. [Long-term effects: The state of affairs concerning safer sex a year after the general campaign.] Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen, 77, 217-224.
Yzer, M.C., Siero, F.W. & Buunk, B.P. (1998). Publiekscampagnes als middel om kennis over seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen te vergroten. [Public campaigns as a means to increase knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases.] Gedrag & Gezondheid, 26, 108-120.
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Buunk, B.P., Bakker, A.B., Siero, F.W., van den Eijnden, R.J.J.M. & Yzer, M.C. (1998). Predictors of AIDS-preventive behavioral intentions among adult heterosexuals at risk for HIV-infection: Extending current models and measures. AIDS Education and Prevention, 10, 149-172.
Yzer, M.C., Fisher, J.D., Bakker, A.B., Siero, F.W., & Misovich, S.J. (1998). The effects of information about AIDS risk and self-efficacy on women’s intentions to engage in AIDS preventive behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 1837-1852. htpps://10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01348.x
