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Melissa L. Carrion

Researcher at Purdue University

Publications -  10
Citations -  151

Melissa L. Carrion is an academic researcher from Purdue University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Actor–network theory. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications receiving 115 citations. Previous affiliations of Melissa L. Carrion include University of Nevada, Las Vegas & Georgia Southern University.

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Examining HPV threat-to-efficacy ratios in the Extended Parallel Process Model.

TL;DR: Response efficacy significantly mediated the relationship between message framing and intentions, such that participants exposed to a genital warts message reported significantly higher intentions, and this association can be explained in part through response efficacy.
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"You need to do your research": vaccines, contestable science, and maternal epistemology.

TL;DR: Drawing from interviews with mothers who refused one or more vaccines, participants’ explanations reflected critical, postmodern, and feminist perspectives on science and knowledge production and can help explain the persistence of the controversy surrounding childhood vaccines in the United States.
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Curricular decision-making among public sex educators

TL;DR: This paper found that sex educators often resolve the competing arguments they face through processes that we call deliberative conflation and deliberative co-optation, which enable the reconciliation of otherwise incommensurate arguments, but they do so in ways that f...
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Gender differences in engineering students' imagined futures

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Future Time Perspective (FTP) theory to determine if gender differences existed in types of future events students envision and how these events were related to academic functioning.
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An Ounce of Prevention: Identifying Cues to (In)Action for Maternal Vaccine Refusal:

TL;DR: Results indicate that the vast majority of participants supported vaccination until a particular cue motivated them to consider otherwise, and qualitative analysis identified three main categories into which these cues fell: perceived adverse reactions, endorsements from health care professionals, and perceived contradiction among expert-endorsed messages.