Roxanne L. Parrott
Contact Information
206 Sparks Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-6255
Research Interests
Communication campaigns, lay and peer influence, self disclosure, privacy, informed consent and cancer prevention
Teaching Interests
Introduction to communication theory, persuasive speaking and health communication/campaigns
Books
Parrott, R. (Forthcoming). Health communication: A multiple discourse approach. Wadsworth.
Gebbie, K., Rosenstock, L., & Committee on educating public health professionals for the 21st century (2003). Who will keep the public healthy?: Educating public health professionals for the 21st century. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Medicine. [committee member]
Thompson, T., Dorsey, A., Miller, K., & Parrott, R. (2003). Handbook of health communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Parrott, R., & Condit, C. M. (1996). Evaluating women's health messages: A resource book. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Maibach, E., & Parrott, R. (1995). Designing health messages: Public health practice and communication theory. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Pfau, M., & Parrott, R. (1993). Persuasive communication campaigns. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.Publications
Publications:
Robinson, J., Silk, K, Parrott, R., Steiner, C., Morris, S., & Honeycutt, C. (2004).Healthcare providers’ sun-protection promotion and at-risk clients’ skin-cancer-prevention outcomes. Preventive Medicine, 38, 251-257.
Harris, T., Parrott, R., & Dorgan, K. (2004). Talking about human genetics within religious frameworks. Health Communication, 16(1), 105-116.
Parrott, R. (2004). “Collective amnesia”: The absence of religious faith and spirituality in health communication research and practice. Health Communication, 16(1), 1-5.
Parrott, R., Silk, K., Weiner, J., Condit, C., Harris, T., & Bernhardt, J. (2004). Deriving lay models of uncertainty about genes’ role in illness causation to guide communication about human genetics. Journal of Communication, 54(1), 105-122.
Parrott, R., Silk, K., Krieger, J. R., Harris, T., & Condit, C. (2004). Behavioral health outcomes associated with religious faith and media exposure about human genetics. Health Communication, 16(1), 29-46.
Condit, C. M., Condit, D. M., Dubriwny, T., Sefcovic, E., Acosta-Alzura, C., Brown-Givens, S., Dietz, C., & Parrott, R. (2003). Lay understandings of sex/gender and genetics: A methodology that preserves polyvocal coder input. Sex Roles, 49, 557-570.
Dorgan, K.A., Williams, S., Parrott, R.L., & Harris, T. (2003). Hope and despair in Pandora’s box: Perceiving reproductive reward and risk of genetics technologies and information. Women’s Studies in Communication Journal, 26, 88-117.
Parrott, R., & Lemieux, R. (2003). When the worlds of work and wellness collide: the role of familial support on skin cancer control. The Journal of Family Communication, 3, 95-106.
Egbert, N., & Parrott, R. (2003). Empathy and social support for the terminally ill: Comparisons between hospice and hospital volunteers. Communication Studies, 54, 18-34.
Parrott, R., Silk, K., & Condit, C. (2003). Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits: Genes, environments, and personal behaviors. Social Science & Medicine, 56, 1099-1109.
Silk, K.J., Parrott, R.L., & Dillow, M.R. (2003) Using theory to guide formative evaluation of “Who’s afraid of Franken-food?”: Implications for health message design.Communication Studies, 54, 1-17.
Education
Ph.D., 1990, Communication,University of Arizona
MA, 1987, Communication,University of Arizona