Catherine Goodall

Dr. Goodall conducts health communication and mass communication research. She is interested in how various types of mediated messages (e.g., news, advertisements, entertainment media) depict health issues and how those messages influence people. Much of her work has focused on substance use message (alcohol, tobacco). Her work emphasizes message processing and seeks to identify various mechanisms through which messages influence people. She has a particular interest in message processing that is automatic, and to some extent unconscious to message recipients. Her teaching interests include health communication, media effects, persuasion, and public communication campaigns.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

(* Indicates graduate student co-author).

• Foster, M., Slater, M.D., & Goodall, C.E. (2021). Increasing Alcohol Control Policy Support: The Mediating Role of Empathy and Emotions. Substance Use and Misuse, 56(7), 971-978 https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1901930
• Lee, S.*, Goodall, C., Egbert, N., Chung, D. (2021). The moderating role of self-construal in culturally reflected fear appeals. Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.1878309
• Egbert, N., Goodall, C., McCullough, J., Smith, T. (2020). Headlines and hashtags: Communicating science during an outbreak. Microbes and Infections, S1286-4579(20), doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2020.07.004.
• York, C., Ponder, J.D., Humphries, Z.,* Goodall, C., Beam, M., & Winters, C.* (2019). Effects of Fact-Checking Political Misinformation on Perceptual Accuracy and Epistemic Political Efficacy. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
• Egbert, N. & Goodall, C.E. (2019). Measurement issues and trends in health communication. In E.E. Graham & J.P. Mazer (Eds.), Communication Measures III: A Sourcebook. New York: Taylor & Francis.
• Qinyu, E. & Goodall, C.E. (2018). Creating demand for abortion service: A content analysis of online advertising videos for abortion care in mainland China. Asian Women, 34, 4, 25-51. https://doi.org/10.14431/aw.2018.12.34.4.25
• Goodall, C.E. (2017). Health and media. In J. D. Ponder (Ed.), Foundations of communication. Fountainhead Press, Southlake, TX.
• Solloway, T. Slater, M.D., Chung, A., & Goodall, C.E. (2014). Anger, sadness, and fear in response to breaking crime and accident news stories: How emotions influence support for alcohol-control public policies via concern about risks. Journal of Media Psychology, 25(4), 160-170. Doi: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000098
• Goodall, C.E. (2014). Selling booze and beer. In D. Coombs & B. Bachelor (Eds.), We are what we sell: How advertising shapes American life...and always has (Vol. 2 Advertising at the center of popular culture: 1930s-1975, p. 122-135). Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO.
• McCullough, J. & Goodall, C.E. (2014). Fast food advertising. In D. Coombs & B. Bachelor (Eds.), We are what we sell: How advertising shapes American life...and always has (Vol. 3 Advertising in the contemporary age, p. 115-130). Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO.
• Goodall, C.E., Slater, M.D., & Myers, T. (2013) Fear and anger responses to local news coverage of alcohol-related crimes, accidents, and injuries: An experiment using representative U.S. news stories and people. Journal of Communication, 62, 2, 373-. Doi:10.1111/jcom/12020.
• Goodall, C.E., and Reed, P.* (2013). Threat and efficacy uncertainty in news coverage about bed bugs as unique predictors of information seeking and avoidance: An extension of the EPPM. Health Communication, 28(1), 63-71. Doi: 10.1080/10410236.2012.689096
• Goodall, C.E. (2013). Forbidden fruit hypothesis. In M. Eastin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Media Violence (p. 169-171). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Slater, M. D., Hayes, A. F., Goodall, C.E., & Ewoldsen, D. (2012). Increasing support for alcohol-control enforcement through news coverage of alcohol's role in injuries and crime: An experiment using representative U.S. news stories and people. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 311-315.
• Goodall, C.E., Sabo, J.,* Cline, R., & Egbert, N. (2012). Threat, efficacy, and uncertainty in the first five months of national print and electronic news coverage of the H1N1 virus. Journal of Health Communication.
• Goodall, C.E. (2011). An overview of implicit measures of attitudes: Methods, mechanisms, strengths and limitations. Communication Methods & Measures, 5(3), 1-20. doi:10.1080/19312458.2011.596992
• Goodall, C.E., & Slater, M.D. (2010). Automatically activated attitudes as mechanisms for message effects: The case of alcohol advertisements. Communication Research, 37(5), 620-643. DOI: 10.1177/0093650210374011
• Roberto, A. J., Goodall, C. E, West, P., & Mahan, J. D. (2010). Persuading physicians to test their patients’ level of kidney functioning: The effects of framing and point of view. Health Communication, 25, 107-118. DOI: 10.1080/10410230903544902
• Roberto, A. J., Carlyle, K. E., Goodall, C. E., & Castle, J. D. (2009). The relationship between parents’ verbal aggressiveness and responsiveness and children’s relational satisfaction with parent and attachment style. Journal of Family Communication, 9, 90-106.
• Roberto, A.J., & Goodall, C.E. (2009). Using the extended parallel process model to explain physicians’ decisions to test their patients for kidney disease. Journal of Health Communication, 14, 400-412.
• Slater, M.D., Goodall, C.E., & Hayes, A.F. (2009). Self-reported news attention does assess differential processing of media content: An experiment on risk perceptions utilizing a random sample of U.S. local crime and accident news. Journal of Communication, 59, 117-134.
• Goodall, C. E., & Appiah, O. (2008). Adolescents’ perceptions of Canadian cigarette package warning labels: Investigating the effects of message framing. Health Communication, 23, 117-127.
• Roberto, A. J., Carlyle, K. E., & Goodall, C. E. (2007). Communication and corporal punishment: The relationship between self-report parent verbal and physical aggression. Communication Research Reports, 24, 103-111.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Goodall, C.E. (2011, January 13). News consumers, be wary of sensational, doomsday reports in an Internet age [Letter to the editor]. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Available: http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2011/01/news_consumers_be_wary_of_sens.html